Going into Target Display Mode withtout an Apple Keyboard?

lifeform said:

Hi,

I have a frequent tendency to spill coffee or redwine over my Apple Keyboards. Managed to this on Tuesday also.

Just wondering if anyone have found a way to manually going into Target Display Mode?

I´m using my Retina 13" MBP as my main computer, wanting to connect the display of my old 27" iMac to it.

I´ve googled this and found two solutions: http://bogner.sh/2013/07/os-x-how-to-use-an-imac-as-monitor/, and an other tips sketching out this solution:

"Try this:

On the target display machine, create a shell script at ~/bin/tdm.sh containing:


#!/bin/sh
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code 144 using command down'

Then, from the primary machine, issue this command from Terminal:

ssh username@target-display-machine "~/bin/tdm.sh"

It may still not work with a Logitech keyboard -- I don't have one to check it with. It did not work with no keyboard attached to the target display machine, but it did work with a generic USB keyboard attached."

But none of these solutions havent really worked out yet.

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lifeform said:

Because Apple has koded some special code for this, so activating Thunderbolt Display Mode __demands__ an Apple Keyboard. :-/

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