Introduction to Optimizing Display Modes and Window Arrangement With the Display Manager

The Display Manager is a legacy technology that supported dynamic changes to the arrangement and display modes of the displays attached to a user’s computer. The Display Manager was included in Carbon to facilitate porting older applications to Mac OS X. While the Display Manager is still supported, it has been deprecated and should not be used for new software development. If you have an existing application that still uses the Display Manager, you should update your application to use Quartz Display Services, the replacement technology in Mac OS X.

The target audience for this legacy document was developers writing applications for Mac OS 9 and earlier. This document is not relevant in Mac OS X.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following chapters:

About the Display Manager describes the features of the Display Manager and helps you determine whether your application needs to use its API.

Using the Display Manager describes some of the tasks you can perform with the Display Manager.