monitor settings Mac
The issue you are describing—where monitor settings revert after a restart—is a known challenge with how macOS handles "Display Handshaking."
Essentially, when a Mac boots up, it takes a few seconds for the operating system to "recognize" and assign a signal to secondary monitors (like your foldback). If EasyWorship is running (or even just checking for updates/background tasks) before macOS has fully "woken up" the second monitor, EasyWorship assumes the only monitor available is your main screen. It then updates its settings to match that single-monitor setup, effectively "forgetting" your foldback configuration.
Here are a few steps you can take to stabilize this setup:
1. Check the macOS Display Arrangement First Before opening EasyWorship, ensure that macOS itself sees the monitors correctly.
- Go to System Settings > Displays.
- Click Arrange...
- Ensure your monitors are positioned exactly how you want them. If you see the monitors "jumping" or changing positions here after a restart, the issue is with the cable or the Mac's detection, not EasyWorship.
2. Set a Specific Output Monitor (Avoid "Auto") In EasyWorship, check your Output Monitor settings.
- If your output is set to "Auto," it is much more susceptible to changing during a reboot.
- Instead, manually select the specific name/number of your foldback monitor in the EasyWorship Output settings. This tells the software to "look" for that specific hardware ID.
3. The "Power-On Sequence" Test To test if this is a handshake issue, try this sequence:
- Turn on your secondary monitor/foldback hardware first.
- Wait 10 seconds.
- Turn on your Mac.
- Only once the Mac is fully logged in and the desktop is visible, launch EasyWorship. If the settings stay correct using this method, you know the issue is simply that the Mac was "waking up" too slowly for the software.
4. Check Permissions (macOS Security) On newer versions of macOS, ensure EasyWorship has "Full Disk Access" in your System Settings > Privacy & Security. If the software is prevented from writing to its own preference files due to macOS security, it won't be able to "save" the monitor settings you choose.
Summary: The goal is to ensure the "environment" (the monitors) is fully stable before the "application" (EasyWorship) starts looking for them.
I hope this helps stabilize your setup!
Pastorc
We recently switched from PC to Mac and we using the latest release of Easy Worship 8.0.49. We have a main display along with a foldback monitor. Our issues is that the monitor settings in EasyWorship change when the computer is shutdown and restarted. Is this a known issue? any suggestions?