Fixscreen: AppleScript to fix Fast User Switching Color Bug

From my own research I have determined that DMProxy will sometimes spit the dummy on login when using fast user switching and delete the base profile for that display from /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays.

So your script should probably do the following:
DMProxy -boot
DMProxy -initiallogin

Just to be on the safe side.

I have lodged a bug with apple over what I believe is the true cause of this problem, and it has not been closed, so here's hoping it gets fixed.

Thank you so much for this. I called applecare and she had me delete my preferences folder, which is a pain in the ass to get everything back to the way I wanted, but it did fix the problem. Ofcourse two days later the problem was back. Atleast no if it happens again there's quick fix for it.

There's also an automator action floating around out in the wild called bringbackmyprofile. This has been a bug since Panther...

Of course, I can't remember the name when invoking it from Butler's launcher, so.. I have a much more colorful name for it.. >;-)

It is nice to see a CK post. I know you are busy with your new job, but I would love to see you post here more. Also, I know it has been addressed here before, but there is far to much Dell action in that photo.

This is good to hear. I experienced the color problems, and restarted to fix it, but it's good to know what's causing it. I didn't bother searching the forums for it.

DMProxy has absolutely NO effect on my system for fixing the fast user switching bug. I tried it when I first read about it a month ago. I tried the script this morning anyway. It does not work. That tells me that something that simple is NOT the real cause/fix for the "bug" and that likely Apple hasn't fixed it because it isn't that easy to fix. I have a G4 digital audio running Tiger 10.4.5. We have an iMac G5 in the office also which does not experience the color profile "bug" at all.

I have that same mousepad from Wired magazine. It never worked with my optical mice, I guess from that crazy pattern. It doesn't give you any trouble?

C.K. Sample, III,

I just bought that same external LCD, and I'm curious if there is any slowdown, or if fans start up just for using it... does having another monitor that big put noticable strain on the video card?

Thanks in advance...

Daniel D,,

I set the secondary monitor as my primary monitor where most of the stuff I'm working on resides in a multiple tabbed window that stretches nearly the full width of the screen. Thus I can post to blogs, read articles, etc, and I also jump over to different documents I have open like my to do list and different office documents I'm working on.

I use the iMac's main monitor exclusively for communications: I have Adium, iChat, and Gmail all opened over there.

hey quick question, what do you use your second monitor for? I always thought any additional monitors as secondary to the primary one yet your "secondary" one is bigger than your original, also which one do you look directly at and do most of your using? Thank you very much