[WizOSX]

How do you do this? I did a search for - system preferences dock - but it turned up thousands of results, of course.

Specifically, I want to put the monitor arrangement pane in the dock.

[ManOfSteal]

Drag the following file into the dock (next to to the Trash):

Macintosh HD/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane

[Jonesy]

You can also access it quickly from the menu by checking the "Show displays in menu bar" box.

[WizOSX]

Originally posted by ManOfSteel

Drag the following file into the dock (next to to the Trash):

Macintosh HD/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane.

OK, that works fine, and thanks for the tip. But I'd really like to put the Arrangement "pane" in the dock, not the Displays pane, just to save the one extra click. BTW this is for the case where you might be changing the arrangement of the monitors many times in an hour.

So, I tried to find a .pane file or other file for the arrangement and couldn't.

An interesting BTW--when I tried to search my hard drive for the Displays.prefPane, Find couldn't. It is very strange what Find will and won't find.

[cpac]

Originally posted by WizOSX:
OK, that works fine, and thanks for the tip. But I'd really like to put the Arrangement "pane" in the dock, not the Displays pane, just to save the one extra click. BTW this is for the case where you might be changing the arrangement of the monitors many times in an hour.

I don't think you can - they aren't separate "panes" but are different tabs within a single pane. There might be a way to mess with the .pane file (with the dev tools or something) to change which tab it opens to by default, but I'm not sure about that.

If it's that frequent, why not just leave the pane open in the background or minimized in the dock?

[WizOSX]

Originally posted by cpac

If it's that frequent, why not just leave the pane open in the background or minimized in the dock?

That's what I've been doing, and it works OK. But the reason to have it in the dock, I guess, is the very reason why we have the dock in the first place--in part so that when you turn on the computer its right there ready to go. We could do the same thing with an app--go find it every time you first want to use it, but the dock keeps frequently used apps "right there" all the time.

[fisherKing]

not running more than one monitor...
but you can go into
system/library/preference panes
and drag the appropriate pane into the dock (NOT on the application side of the divider).
one click and you're in...

ah, but if there is no seperate pane for "arrangement"...

i'd agree w/above; keep it open, minimized in the dock.

perhaps try dragging the monitor pane into startup items..??


edit: oops! my original idea was mentioned in the second post here...apologies!

[Krusty]

Use AppleScript. I can't find the source code, but I wrote a short script for my roommate who knows little about Macs. Basically, the script open System Preferences, shows the Energy Save control panel, and picks the Sleep tab with a click of this "app" in the dock.

If I can find the syntax, I'll post it.

[Diggory Laycock]

The example you're looking for is in /Library/Scripts/UI Elements Scripts