How to get back the missing monitor option in Mountain Lion's menubar?
When plugging in an external monitor on every OS X < 10.8 you could set the monitor options to show up on the menu bar.
How do I get this option on Mountain Lion?
I connect a DVI monitor via the hdmi ouput on a retina MacBook Pro and I am unable to find a way to enable this option.
System>Library>Coreservices>Menu Extras - Double click on the Displays.Menu icon
Just like in the old (10.3?) days.
Display Menu (free) on the Mac App store adds the menu options back for OS X 10.8
The menubar option is not available anymore.
You have to go into System Preferences > Displays.
THe fastest way is to use shortcuts:
Option(alt) + Brightness Key on an Apple Keyboard brings you directly to the display settings. Command + F1 to toggle between video mirroring and extended desktop Command + F2 to detect displays
Control + Brightness to change the brightness of the secondary display.
I did find out that in Display Preferences, if you hold down Option ⌥ you get the detect display. The the other solution of using ⌥ + Brightness keys works.