Lab Environment Set External Monitor Arrangement (Left)

ruschg
New Contributor II

Hello everyone,

I have a few machines in a lab environment where the primary iMac is attached to an external monitor. Once a new user logs into the machine, the external display automatically displays to the right of the primary iMac by default.

Has anyone determined a way to set the iMac to view the external display from the left of the machine instead? Thank you in advance.

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macbofh
New Contributor III

Last year i used the tools hmscreens and cscreen for a similar setup (MacBook in dock with 2 external displays). I had succes with 1 external display but setting up a second screen was not very stable.

But you can checkout these tools. I'm not sure if they work with 10.13.x

http://www.hamsoftengineering.com/codeSharing/hmscreens/hmscreens.html
http://www.pyehouse.com/cscreen/

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macbofh
New Contributor III

Last year i used the tools hmscreens and cscreen for a similar setup (MacBook in dock with 2 external displays). I had succes with 1 external display but setting up a second screen was not very stable.

But you can checkout these tools. I'm not sure if they work with 10.13.x

http://www.hamsoftengineering.com/codeSharing/hmscreens/hmscreens.html
http://www.pyehouse.com/cscreen/

ruschg
New Contributor II

Thank you @macbofh - I'll give the following a go!

mgshepherd
Contributor

I first tried with a config profile since I saw the file com.apple.windowserver.plist had an attribute for "DisplayLayoutToRight" true or false. That didn't seem to do anything. I'll try the hmscreen route.

thta
New Contributor III

Did you manage to find a solution to this? 

We currently have 2 situations where this could be useful. 
1. Conference room with a Mac mini using 2 displays. Would be perfect to apply the same display arrangement for every user.
2. Bring your own device to conference room. User plugs their Macbook to 2 displays using USB-C. Would be good to be able to set the display arrangement for all Macbook's within the company. 

Any solutions out there?