macOS command line utility to pragmatically change main display

hoveddisplay

A way to progmatically change main display on macos. Swift CLI and Raycast extension both included

Demo

2022-10-25.12-51-37.mp4

Install

CLI

brew tap cryogenicplanet/hoveddisplay
brew install hoveddisplay

Raycast

The CLI is required for raycast extension to work.

For right now, just clone this repo and import it as an extension in raycast. I will publish this to the raycast extension repo at some point

Usage

CLI

hoveddisplay list # Returns a list of all displays
hoveddisplay json # Returns this list as JSON

hoveddisplay change <UUID> # Sets the main display to the one specified
hoveddisplay change 37D8832A-2D66-02CA-B9F7-8F30A301B230

Raycast

The demo above shows the raycast usage. The extension is pretty simple, it just runs the CLI with the selected display as an argument.

Acknowledgment

This was heavily insipired by https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer and was a starting guide for building this, the main difference is that this automatically sets your origins so you can just choose which is your main display.

GitHub

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