Enable Screen Mirroring show in menubar

[elliots]

Hi,

Our fleet has just jumped from Catalina to Monterey and our users are struggling to locate the screen mirroring "Show in menu Bar" tickbox. 

Ideally I would just like a script to enable this or our users. 

I have tried

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.controlcenter.plist ScreenMirroring -int 18

but it doesn't seem to work.

weirdly sound and bluetooth work though which are controlled inside the same plist. 

e.g: defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.controlcenter.plist Sound -int 18

anyone got any ideas how the ScreenMirroring preference can be set via terminal script?

Cheers,

ES

[elliots]

Update: 

I have managed to enable the tickbox with:

defaults write com.apple.airplay showInMenuBarIfPresent -bool true

However I have another hurdle. Is it possible to change from the default: "when active" to "always" so it always displays in the menubar?

ES

[scottb · Accepted solution]

@elliots :

I found this in the MacAdmins slack...credit to @nstrauss - noting it's "per user":

#!/bin/zsh

logged_in_user=$(scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name 😕 && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }')
user_home=$(dscl . -read /users/$logged_in_user NFSHomeDirectory | cut -d " " -f 2)

sudo -u "$logged_in_user" /usr/bin/defaults write "$user_home"/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.controlcenter.plist ScreenMirroring -int 18
sudo -u "$logged_in_user" /usr/bin/defaults write "$user_home"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.airplay.plist showInMenuBarIfPresent -bool true

sudo killall "ControlCenter"

Works here in macOS 12.2 beta I'm running, so give it a shot.... 

[scottb]

Dang it...where the "smiley" is, change to : / (with no space in between)!!!

Someone tell me why pasting into code gives me emojis?  Or rather, how do I stop that!

[CalleyO]

@scottb  Apologies, Scott, this is a bug and we are working to resolve it as quickly as possible. 😀 

[scottb]

Thank you, @CalleyO - I meant to file it and forgot!  Appreciate the heads-up.

[TomDay]

Edit: NM, I didn't see the comment about the inadvertent smiley face! All good now, thx for this!!

I'm getting an error when running the script, can you give a look for a scripting novice?

Script result: awk: syntax error at source line 1
 context is
	/Name � && ! /loginwindow/ >>>  { <<< 
awk: bailing out at source line 1
usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
usage: sudo -l [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user]
            [command]
usage: sudo [-AbEHknPS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p
            prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] [VAR=value] [-i|-s]
            [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-AknS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt]
            [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...
usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
usage: sudo -l [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user]
            [command]
usage: sudo [-AbEHknPS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p
            prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] [VAR=value] [-i|-s]
            [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-AknS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt]
            [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...

[itibsolution]

Sorry, I didn't understand that "smiley" edit.
I get the same error as @TomDay 

[TomDay]

@itibsolution give this a try:

#!/bin/zsh

logged_in_user=$(scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name / && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }')
user_home=$(dscl . -read /users/$logged_in_user NFSHomeDirectory | cut -d " " -f 2)

sudo -u "$logged_in_user" /usr/bin/defaults write "$user_home"/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.controlcenter.plist ScreenMirroring -int 18
sudo -u "$logged_in_user" /usr/bin/defaults write "$user_home"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.airplay.plist showInMenuBarIfPresent -bool true

sudo killall "ControlCenter"

[elliots]

Oh Thankyou! that worked a treat.