# Open Display Settings Action

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/open-display-settings-action/31143>\
**Category:** Configuration Help & General Discussion\
**Tags:** system-preferences\
**Created:** [April 7, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/open-display-settings-action/31143 "2023-04-07T14:29:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Craig\_D](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/craig_d/32/44522_2.png) [@Craig\_D](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Craig_D)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/open-display-settings-action/31143/1 "2023-04-07T14:29:15Z")

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Hi there!

I am looking for a way to quickly open System Settings/Displays/Arrange, or at least Settings/Displays. Any advice? Ideally I'd like to use my Magic Keyboard Brightness key (F1). I can''t figure out how to do it. 🙁

Here's a screenshot...  
 ![Shared with CloudApp](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/d/4/d4443589173ef7e487f4b244afc956b79fb9740b.png)

Thanks!  
Craig

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**Author:** ![Frank1](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a87d85/32.png) [@Frank1](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Frank1)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/open-display-settings-action/31143/2 "2023-04-07T16:25:27Z")

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Probably there is some Apple Script. Otherwise just automate what you do manually. Click "Arrange" probably works best with image recognition.

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/open-display-settings-action/31143/3 "2023-04-07T17:00:18Z")

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You can open the displays preferences using this terminal command

`open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane`

or alternatively  
`open x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.displays`

However I don't think there is currently a way to directly access the arrange modal ;-(

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**Author:** ![Craig\_D](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/craig_d/32/44522_2.png) [@Craig\_D](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Craig_D)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/open-display-settings-action/31143/4 "2023-04-07T18:27:39Z")

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Awesome thanks! That worked.  
I used non-blocking, is that ok?  
 ![Shared with CloudApp](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/optimized/3X/f/5/f5b8778d7674ef1f72d7d63a717ca81fc4cfe192_2_690x36.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![herou](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@herou](https://community.folivora.ai/u/herou)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/open-display-settings-action/31143/5 "2023-08-11T19:10:03Z")

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Just came here to say that I was looking for the same thing and that I'm still amazed by all the functionality that BetterTouchTool offers. It's almost limitless. Thank you Andreas! I cannot praise BetterTouchTool enough. The first app I install on a brand new Mac.

EDIT: Yes, Craig, async is probably better. Sync might be better if you need to execute a few commands one after another and you need to wait for the previous command to finish to execute the next one.