Mirror display menu

Hi, I´m kind of new on this, so, i have a question. I have a a MacBook pro 10.7.5 and i dont find my mirror display option, I have the little computer icon, but does not show that option; please help. Thank you.

This solved my question by hellacott on Jul 30, 2012 1:16 AM option-brightness: Display Preference Pane command-decrease-brightness: Change display mode (only on revised fn keyboard layout on Alu. keyboards, newer MBP/MBs? Apart from that, you've gotta go into the display preferences. It's really annoying, I kn
i read this, thank you to Hellcott, But I´m still not getting the mirrror option.

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Step 2: Click on System Preferences. After connecting your MacBook to your TV, the F7 hotkey will be activated. This will allow you to activate the Mirroring Mode.
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it won't work like this. you can only assign a keyboard shortcut to an existing menu item in a menu in the left side of the menu bar. You can not make up your own commands as you did - the system won't know what to do with them.
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Mirror displays

Hey everybody,
I just bought a 22 inch samsung display and I have hooked my aluminum unibody macbook to it. Everything works fine when I have the extended screen option, the resolution is beautiful. When I try the mirror display option the external becomes the same as my macbook just stretched to size. I tried changing the resolution to the same I have it on when I use the extended screen but not much is changing.
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May I ask you for a solution for the following problem.
I have recently switched from a Powerbook G4 15 inch to a MacBook Pro 15 inch.
I often give presentations in large lecture halls where the beamer is controlled by a technician not immediately accessible. What happens is that I start up my laptop and the main screen appears on the beamer, which is not yet switched on to be seen on the big screen. All I get on my laptop is the empty secondary screen. On my Powerbook G4 there was a function key, which allowed me to immediately mirror the displays (synchronize the monitors), which instantly solved the problem and gave me control to start my presentation. The technician controlling the beamer would then start showing the beamer to the audience when my first slide had appeared.
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Both Kappy and drsailer are really trying to help.
The top row (function keys) is identical on US and German keyboards (Swiss German in my case) and the F7 key has been assigned a new function in all models released after February 2008 (a tribute to gamers and leisure users ostensibly).
In analogy, the respective entries have been deleted from the help files. So it all makes sense except that this treasured function is no longer available for the few people like me using the laptop predominantly for lectures in ever changing surroundings and situations.
The situation I am talking about, is when you get to a lectern and start your computer up once you are there. Work arounds like having it in standby with the first slide mounted exist, but you have to think of it and prepare it in advance. Of course you can disconnect it from the beamer cable at the lectern and get the control back, start up the slide and connect it again. The first time you are in such a predicament you will most liekely not be cold blooded enough to think about that. Even if you are it is utterly uncool if you have to fiddle around before your presentation starts.
It is not the end of the world but it should be easy for the Apple people to write a little modification to assign a key or a combination of keys to replace the abandoned F7 function key for "mirror displays".
In fact, it is therotecially possible to assign keys to all the menu functions (mirror displays is still retained as a menu function once you activate it) but you are asked to type the exact wording of the menu function. I tried a variety of German and Englisch wordings to no avail. The wordings are different if you pull down the menu under the display ikon or if you check in system preferences under displays. Here the German system may in fact be the conundrum.
If somebody lets me know the exact English wording in these 2 places in the English system, I can check, if I missed something there in my attempts.

Hi, i tried to connect my mac book pro on my tv. I can't clci kon mirror displays

Hi, i tried to connect my mac book pro on my tv with my hdmi cable but when i click on displays, "arrangement" doesn't appear . Even if i click on detect displays, it doesn't work. Mirror displays doesn't appear on my screen. Does anybody get any idea ?
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Victoria

Hello Victoria,
It sounds like you are connecting your MacBook Pro with your television, but you are not getting additional options for your external display.
I found an article with steps to troubleshoot issues with displays. This article is for internal and external displays, so you can skip any steps referring to the internal display. I recommend reviewing the section titled "No video or no signal, image distortion, 'snow,' or flickering" in the following article:
Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1573
Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

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