Want to display MacBook Pro on TV but no icons appear
I bought a DVI to HDMI lead to view the MacBook pro's screen on a 32" Sony Bravia, but all that appears is the wallpaper of the laptop!??... No icons, or windows of software opened, just the wallpaper.
I went into system settings/displays and noted that the tv displayed a window showing the Sony tv listed, yet it wasn't on the laptop! As I changed the resolution on the laptop to see if anything changed, the tv would show a split second of some of the icons as it tried to change but reverts back to just wallpaper.
I initially mentioned that the lead doesn't work to the supplier and that one of the pins was slightly inset on the laptop end, so they sent out another, which is identical and performs the same.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
If you can see the desktop wallpaper on the TV everything is working normally. You have an extended desktop. If you move the mouse cursor off the edge of the MBP's screen you will see it appear on the TV. Similarly you can drag windows from the MBP's screen to the TV. At present the MBP's screen is the primary display and shows the menu bar and dock, and the TV is the secondary display. To change this go into System Preferences -> Displays -> Arrangement. You will see an image of two screens, a smaller one representing the MBP's display and a larger one representing the external display. At the top of the smaller screen in the image is a bar, this represents the menu bar at the top of the screen. Drag it from the smaller screen to the larger screen. The external display will become the primary display and the menu bar and dock will appear there and any new windows or applications that you open subsequently will appear there too.
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