Mac OS X

Send FrontRow to a 2nd Monitor

Scenario: You’re working on one display but you want to use the second display as a media center while you’re working. Well, Front Row 2.0 can be used on a second display that is connected to your computer. Mac OS X uses a unique identifier to track each display connected to a computer. To get started you’re first going to need to figure out what the unique identifier for that second display is. In order to do so, download the displaysInfo utility.

Open terminal and run the ./displaysInfo command using the directory that it was downloaded to. Look for the d2_ID field (you can also use | grep d2_ID followed by the command to just see this). Use that number in the place of MYUNIQUEID and use the following command to write that number into the FrontRowUsePreferredDisplayID field of the com.apple.frontrow defaults domain:

defaults write com.apple.frontrow FrontRowUsePreferredDisplayID MYUNIQUEID

To undo the setting:
defaults delete com.apple.frontrow FrontRowUsePreferredDisplayID