what is F7?

indapino22 · Mar 1, 2007

what does the F7 key do?

Alexis · Mar 1, 2007

Nothing.

skye · Mar 1, 2007

then why does the key on my macbook have a window overlapping a window?(i just realized this now)

RiDE · Mar 1, 2007

Shift+APPLE+F7 is the default key for toggling "Screen Spanning/mirroring"

Carla · Mar 1, 2007

skye23412 said:
then why does the key on my macbook have a window overlapping a window?(i just realized this now)

If you go into your System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose', take a look at your keyboard shortcuts and see if F7 is set as a shortcut.

Hopefully that helps you out.

indapino22 · Mar 1, 2007

RIDE said:
Shift+APPLE+F7 is the default key for toggling "Screen Spanning/mirroring"

Carla said:
If you go into your System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose', take a look at your keyboard shortcuts and see if F7 is set as a shortcut.

Hopefully that helps you out.

thank you and thank you...F7 is set as a shortcut...but it didnt say how to use it...thanks to RIDE i now know

RiDE · Mar 1, 2007

Now go get another display so you can USE it.

fzanetti · Mar 1, 2007

RIDE said:
Now go get another display so you can USE it.

There you go...

Just tested mine on my 61" JVC DLP 1080p TV..

IT ROCKS!!!

heheheheeh

indapino22 · Mar 2, 2007

RIDE said:
Now go get another display so you can USE it.

already did, i hooked it up to my 21" gateway LCD monitor that i use for my pc..super cool button

RiDE · Mar 2, 2007

fzanetti said:
There you go...

Just tested mine on my 61" JVC DLP 1080p TV..

IT ROCKS!!!

heheheheeh

Indapino22 said:
already did, i hooked it up to my 21" gateway LCD monitor that i use for my pc..super cool button

Great! What cables did you use?

indapino22 · Mar 2, 2007

DVI cable

cwa107 · Mar 2, 2007

Just out of curiosity while we're on the subject - I recently had an opportunity to connect my MacBook Pro to a Polycom video conferencing system to "share" the screen over a video conference. On my PC notebooks, this would entail making the physical connection and then hitting a key-combo to toggle between the internal and external display. I tried using F7 & Fn-F7 to make it work, but no dice. Instead, I brought up display properties and had to hit "Detect Displays", then my screen resolution was automatically changed to 800x600 (on both displays) and it came right up. I'm not sure if this was a quirk of the Polycom system, but in my experience, PC laptops usually keep the main display at its native resolution, but send the external display something that the external monitor can handle. Am I missing something? Is there any easier way to get this to work (in the event I need to hook up an external display or projector in the future)?