Going into Target Display Mode withtout an Apple Keyboard?

[lifeform]

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.

 

[Altemose]

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.

Maybe I am missing something but why can't you hit CMD F2 from the Logitech keyboard? And if the CMD and OPT keys are backwards just hit Alt F2 or remap the key!

 

[lifeform]

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

 

[winterquilt]

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

You are completely right, it’s the small print in the contract that one doesn’t realise until fully invested.

I had a wireless peripheral arrangement which I hoped to carry over to control the MacBook, but with them also tethered to the iMac I have to disable Bluetooth, which was another issue.

I was going to get a cheap USB keyboard just to access TDM on the iMac, only then realising what Apple had sneakily done. There being no way to re-map the keys either.

But it does work smoothly, even with ancient Thunderbolt 1 devices.