You need to activate "closed lid mode". Do so by connecting the power cord to your macbook, then connect the screen. Close the lid. Plugging in a USB device of any kind or pressing any key on an external keyboard or mouse will wake the MacBook up. Now the external screen is the main screen, the internal one is disabled.
Be careful, though, and reopen the lid of the MacBook a bit as the screen could be damaged by the heat when running it for days in closed lid mode.
Reactivation of the internal screen: set MacBook to sleep, close the lid, disconnect your external screen and open the lid again. Now the internal display is the main one. If it's not working, reboot always helps.
This would NOT be the answer to the original question.
But you can do this. But I'm not sure on which screen DVD Player will show the movie. Probably only on the internal screen (if an external one is connected). I've never tried it, though.
This would NOT be the answer to the original question.
But you can do this. But I'm not sure on which screen DVD Player will show the movie. Probably only on the internal screen (if an external one is connected). I've never tried it, though.
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Be careful, though, and reopen the lid of the MacBook a bit as the screen could be damaged by the heat when running it for days in closed lid mode.
Reactivation of the internal screen: set MacBook to sleep, close the lid, disconnect your external screen and open the lid again. Now the internal display is the main one. If it's not working, reboot always helps.
I can turn my macbookpro's light to pretty much "off" (or at least it looks that way). via the F1 key..
But you can do this. But I'm not sure on which screen DVD Player will show the movie. Probably only on the internal screen (if an external one is connected). I've never tried it, though.
This would NOT be the answer to the original question.
But you can do this. But I'm not sure on which screen DVD Player will show the movie. Probably only on the internal screen (if an external one is connected). I've never tried it, though.
Yeh neither, so I have no idea.
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