Resize an OSX display with RubyCocoa.

gistfile1.rb

require 'osx/cocoa'

class Screen
  class << self
    def resize(width, height, &block)
      new.resize(width, height, &block)
    end
  end

  def initialize(screen = OSX::CGMainDisplayID())
    @screen = screen
    @mode   = OSX::CGDisplayCopyDisplayMode(@screen)
  end

  def resize(width, height, &block)
    configure(best_mode(width, height))
    block.call
  ensure
    configure(@mode)
  end

  private

  def best_mode(width, height)
    # TODO Try to figure out color depth from CGDisplayModeCopyPixelEncoding?
    OSX::CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes(@screen, nil).detect do |mode|
      OSX::CGDisplayModeGetWidth(mode) == width &&
      OSX::CGDisplayModeGetHeight(mode) == height &&
      OSX::CGDisplayModeIsUsableForDesktopGUI(mode)
    end
  end

  def configure(mode)
    result, config = OSX::CGBeginDisplayConfiguration()
    if result == OSX::KCGErrorSuccess
      OSX::CGConfigureDisplayWithDisplayMode(config, @screen, mode, nil)
      OSX::CGCompleteDisplayConfiguration(config, OSX::KCGConfigureForSession)
    else
      raise "I have no clue what just happened: #{result}"
    end
  end
end

Hi

How's the usage? How can I use this in the Terminal?
Thanks a lot
Fabio

Hi, Fabio, sorry for my late reply. I've been traveling for some time now.

You'll be best off getting more comfortable with Ruby in particular and shell-scripting in general. I hope you'll kindly understand that I'm not able to help you with that here.

I would love to see usage in ruby, i'm unsure of the syntax expected.