I endure from a really comparable downside. My MacBook Professional (16-inch, 2021), with Apple M1 Max CPU and macOS Monterey 12.6, is equally unreliable about assigning the left and proper exterior screens. They’re each BenQ EX2780Q fashions. In my case, the Mac will get it proper about 80% of the instances it awakes from sleep. When it will get it flawed, I’ve a few workarounds that are normally efficient. However it is vitally annoying.
My two screens are side-by-side, above the MacBook Professional’s built-in show. The left-hand monitor connects by way of Thunderbolt 3 cable to a Thunderbolt port on the left of the MacBook Professional. The suitable-hand monitor connects by way of an HDMI cable to an HDMI port on the best of the MacBook Professional. Usually, the Show Preferences UI labels the left-hand monitor “BenQ EX2780Q (1)”, and the right-hand monitor “BenQ EX2780Q (2)”.
What I observe is that, when the Mac wakes from sleep, or wakes the screens from sleep after I’ve not used them shortly, there’s a interval of 5-15 seconds when the shows present messages or pictures, then go black, then show pictures once more. Ultimately each screens present desktop pictures. I can transfer my pointer from built-in show to show (1) to show (2). About 80% of the time, the Mac picks the left-hand monitor to be show (1), and the best to be show (2). The remainder of the time, it reverses this project.
I can inform which end result I’ve, even earlier than I enter my password to take away the show lock, by transferring my pointer upwards from the built-in MacBook show to show (1). When issues are right, the pointer arrives on the left-hand monitor. When issues are flawed, it arrives on the right-hand monitor.
In Show Preferences, macOS at all times depicts show (1) on the left and show (2) on the best, even when it’s got them swapped in actual life. I can affirm this by displaying completely different desktop pictures on every monitor. The Show Preferences UI exhibits the desktop pictures.
My major workaround is, when the shows awake and earlier than I enter my password to the show lock, to maneuver the pointer up and sideways. This lets me inform if the shows are assigned in reverse. If they’re, I press the “Cancel” button (or press the Escape key), and the shows return to sleep. I wait a second and check out once more. It looks as if the Mac rolls the cube on mis-assigning the shows every time it wakes. However, it has a bias to maintain the project it at the moment has, even whether it is flawed. Typically, the second attempt is right. Typically I have to attempt 10 instances.
If that fails, my second workaround is to unplug the cable to my right-hand monitor, the one I wish to be show (2). Then I get up the Mac. It has no alternative however to make my left-hand monitor be show (1). Then I plug within the cable to my right-hand monitor. It turns into show (2), as I would like it to be. The draw back of this trick is that, as soon as I unlock my display screen, I normally uncover that my software home windows are on the flawed show.
I attempted utilizing displayplacer. It’s “a command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and preparations.” I received it by way of MacPorts. Displayplacer enables you to assign show rotation, decision, and relative place, utilizing ID numbers that are purported to be distinctive and unchanging. For example, you might command (I shortened id numbers and added line breaks for readability):
displayplacer "id:1817…1F30+F466…DECD res:1440x900 scaling:on origin:(0,0) diploma:0"
"id:4C40…22BB res:768x1360 hz:60 color_depth:8 scaling:off origin:(1440,0) diploma:90"
"id:A46D2F5E-487B-CC69-C588-ECFD519016E5 mode:3 origin:(-1440,0) diploma:270"
What disillusioned me about displayplacer is that these ID numbers aren’t hooked up to the bodily screens. As a substitute, they seem hooked up to macOS’s thought of “show (1)” and “show (2)”. When macOS reverses the assignments, it reverses the connection of ID quantity to bodily monitor as properly. I suppose I might give you two scripted invocations of displayplacer: one to reverse relative positions of the shows in response to macOS reversing the assignments, and one to accurately place the shows in response to macOS later getting the assignments proper. I’ll go away another person to put in writing the reply which exhibits how to do that.
