Moving Menubar between monitors

[tangentially]

I have a Macbook Pro and when I am at work I use it with a second external monitor.

I occasionally need to move my menubar to my external monitor.

I know how to do it via System Preferences, but that is time consuming and a bit irritating.

Does anyone know of a system level command I could use from terminal to accomplish this? Then I could just automate it in a shellscript or applescript file and it would happen quickly and fairly easily.

Thanks,

John

 

[karenflower]

Sorry, I don't know of a terminal script that can do this - however there is an app called Deja Menu (http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.html) which can display the menu bar as a context menu.

Would this be of any use to you?

 

[jeremy.king]

When I was doing this, I just left the menubar assigned to my external display. When I would disconnect, it gracefully moves back to the MBP display (as do all the windows on the external). If I reconnected to that monitor, the menubar was back on the external.

Does this work for you?

 

[smogsy]

When I was doing this, I just left the menubar assigned to my external display. When I would disconnect, it gracefully moves back to the MBP display (as do all the windows on the external). If I reconnected to that monitor, the menubar was back on the external.

Does this work for you?

yeh works in leopard i love this feature

 

[tangentially]

Moving Menubar between monitors

I found an old utility called cscreen which does this from a terminal command line.

It is no longer supported and is PPC only, but it works in my Leopard MBP fine.

Thanks,

John

 

[Osarkon]

I found an old utility called cscreen which does this from a terminal command line.

It is no longer supported and is PPC only, but it works in my Leopard MBP fine.

Thanks,

John

Thanks for the tip, I was looking for something to do this last week.