[m a d r a]

does anyone else get this?... and if so, do you find it as feckin annoying as i do?

i use a laptop as my main machine, so i've usually got it attached to an external monitor when i'm at home. i use custom colour profiles with the laptop's LCD and the external monitor, coz i find the default profiles a bit too 'blue' for my liking.

well, every time i disconnect and reconnect from my external monitor and then go up to the menubar and click "detect displays" [so the comp picks up the new configuration], both monitors suddenly suddenly take on a noticeable blue-ish tint as they obviously display using the default colour profile. i then have to open up the displays pref, where i can see that my custom colour profiles are still selected as if they are being used. however, i have to click on each one in turn before the monitors take any notice and update their displays to use my colour space.

i reported this bug to apple at least two updates ago, but as yet it disnae seem to have merited a 'fix'.

[Thorin]

I have a similar problem. I use a 12" powerbook with an external monitor. If my powerbook sleeps while the monitor is connected, when it wakes back up, it's moved some windows around (which I can just about cope with) and it's defaulted to a blue desktop background (which annoys the hell out of me). I then have to go into system preferences, where it will show me that my previously selected background is still in use. Then I have to select a different background, and reselect the background I actually want to use. Quite infuriating!

[m a d r a]

oh yes! i occasionally get the blue background scenario as well - although only ever on the external monitor. that calls for another --->

[EnVoy]

I have a 22in and a 17in as a second. Whenever I startup/restart the machine fresh, the hard drive icons, and any lined up below them are set halfway off the screen (to the right side). Annoying! Anyone know a fix?

[Buck_Naked]

Originally posted by EnVoy:
I have a 22in and a 17in as a second. Whenever I startup/restart the machine fresh, the hard drive icons, and any lined up below them are set halfway off the screen (to the right side). Annoying! Anyone know a fix?

With my setup, Dual800 with a 19" and 15" LCD monitors I notice my drive icons move down the screen after a reboot.

[himself]

Originally posted by m a d r a:
well, every time i disconnect and reconnect from my external monitor and then go up to the menubar and click "detect displays" [so the comp picks up the new configuration], both monitors suddenly suddenly take on a noticeable blue-ish tint as they obviously display using the default colour profile. i then have to open up the displays pref, where i can see that my custom colour profiles are still selected as if they are being used. however, i have to click on each one in turn before the monitors take any notice and update their displays to use my colour space.

I have the *exact* same problem. It is annoying, becasue my preferred profile is always selected in the displays prefpane, but it looks as if it is using one of the default "bluer" profiles, until I select it again. I hate it!


I'm not getting the sleep or desktop icon problems, though.

[RayX]

I have also noticed this problem from time to time. Have reported it.

Did you use http://bugreport.apple.com?

Hopefully fixed in 10.3.5 or Tiger...

[sniffer]

I HAD the same problem on my PB, but I solved it.

Not sure what exactly cured it, but I moved the home brewed color profile from the (default) ~/ area and into /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/... And from there I made sure it was correctly set in ColorSync Utility found in /Application/Utilities/ folder.

I am not sure what exactly solved it, but I since I haven't had any more problems after I did the above steps, I haven't bothered to dig any further into the issue.

Hope this information was helpful.

[nJm]

I have this issue on my iBook G4 using the Screen Spanning hack. Whenever I unplug or plug back in my external display the LCD screen's color profile is wrong. It is using the default profile, however it actually still shows my calibrated one as being selected. All I have to do is click on the highlighted "Color LCD Calibrated" option and it uses it again.

Don't have problems with icons moving or background pictures, other than it remembering the desktop pictures for each screen under each configuration. If I change the picture on the iBook's display on the move, I don't want it to use the old desktop picture when I plug it into the external monitor. Ah well.