Re: Normal for macOS to reset my display setups after disconnecting and reconnecting the same external HD 1080 monitor (HDMI)?

From	Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.video, comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems
Subject	Re: Normal for macOS to reset my display setups after disconnecting and reconnecting the same external HD 1080 monitor (HDMI)?
Date	2021-02-06 05:37 +0000
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On 05-Feb-2021 at 5:45:33PM PST, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Is it me or normal for macOS to reset my display setups after 
> disconnecting and reconnecting the same external HD 1080 monitor (HDMI)? 
> It resets to default Retina default tiny GUI and texts from scaled 
> 1280x800 resolution (want bigger GUI and texts due to old eyes) set in 
> macOS' accessiblity. Is there no way to have macOS remember these since 
> it's annoying to retelling it? This is with an over month old 2020 13" 
> MBP (Intel i7).
> 
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering.

I constantly connected my older MacBook Pro to a Samsung 27" monitor with
HDMI. It would recognize the resolution of the external monitor automatically.
I used both monitors side by side.

My boss had an Apple 27" monitor with much higher resolution and his 13"
MacBook connected up to it and recognized it with no problem.

I'm wondering who makes your monitor and what happens when you connect it to
your system.  Do you see both on the Displays System Preference? What version
of Mac OS is this?  Something that new is probably 10.15 or 11.x.

Here in SF/Bay, the Apple Stores aren't open, so getting a Genius Bar
appointment to have someone look at it isn't possible.  Also schlepping the
display and laptop would be a pain even if things where open.  Have you called
the Apple Support line?

I have no idea if rebooting and resetting PROM is still applicable since my
stuff is much older.

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