No "Displays" in System Preferences

Apparently I don't have the option to configure my displays in Mac OS X. The option "Displays" has been removed from the System Preferences.

Is there a way to restore this?

thomasvdb

Posted 2011-03-30T07:37:20.177

Reputation: 197

Is there a Displays.prefPane file in /System/Library/PreferencePanes? What happens when you open it? – Daniel Beck – 2011-03-30T07:48:21.127

If there's not, consider running the Combo Updater for your version of OS X (Google e.g. "10.6.7 combo update") before doing major surgery. – Daniel Beck – 2011-03-30T08:00:47.063

The file didn't exist. I've copied the file from another computer and it works now. Thanks! – thomasvdb – 2011-03-30T08:01:18.330

@thomas I'll post as an answer so you can accept it. It will give us both a few reputation points and it will mark this question answered. – Daniel Beck – 2011-03-30T08:05:18.700

@thomas: If you copied it from another computer, you should probably finish up by running Repair Permissions in Disk Utility, to make sure the file's ownership gets set properly. (This probably doesn't matter in this particular case, but is generally a good idea after messing with system files "by hand".) – Gordon Davisson – 2011-03-30T17:07:39.213

If you copied it from another computer, you should probably finish up by running Repair Permissions in Disk Utility, to make sure the file's ownership gets set properly. – Gordon Davisson – 2011-03-30T15:19:33.347

@Gordon Does the user get notified of your comment here? Better comment on the question, just in case. – Daniel Beck – 2011-03-30T15:31:12.793

No "Displays" in System Preferences

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