waydabber

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MonitorControl 4: use your 3rd party monitor as it was an Apple display for free(github.com)
3 points by waydabber 5y ago|1 comments
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by waydabber 5y ago
MonitorControl is an app to control the brightness and volume of your external display like it was a native Apple display (via the native Apple keys showing the native OSD). The new 4.0.0 version was recently released and has a huge amount
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by waydabber 5y ago
Yep, sorry, I guess I was clicking the wrong link while trying to respond to something else. I agree with you, it is funny that we need dummies and workarounds (being hardware or software).
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by waydabber 5y ago
Hi, I tested the Screen Sharing scenario with BetterDummy running on an Intel headless Mac Mini 2018 running Big Sur. Works splendidly, all resolutions are available and resolution change works on-the fly through Screen Sharing!
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by waydabber 5y ago
Wow, thanks! :)
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by waydabber 5y ago
According to my tests the app seems to provide headless macs with a HiDPI virtual display with customizable resolution (tested via Screen Sharing, resolution switch on the fly worked, all resolutions are available without any real display c
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by waydabber 5y ago
I can confirm this, I had now the chance to test it as well. My findings: - Works just fine on an Intel Mac (tested one with Intel UHD 630). - Works well with Big Sur (tested on an Intel Mac). - Does seem to provide headless macs with a HiD
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by waydabber 5y ago
Amazing, thanks for the report! Did not have a chance to test it on Intel but I did compile the app to be Intel and Big Sur+ compatible and the APIs used by the app should be available on these platforms as well.
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by waydabber 5y ago
Immersed apparently uses the same technique as BetterDummy to create virtual displays. I don't know if without a subscription BetterDummy created additional virtual displays show up in Immersed (as I have Elite), but for sure, BetterDu
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by waydabber 5y ago
It is actually a software alternative for a hardware fix to a software annoyance lol. :)
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by waydabber 5y ago
Hey, I have a Quest 2, I'll try this one out myself as well. :) Thanks for the idea!
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by waydabber 5y ago
This is an interesting question, honestly I have no idea. It might be that these APIs are relying on the presence of a GPU for acceleration (as the private framework APIs used are made by apple for Sidecar and AirPlay primarily). If you tes
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by waydabber 5y ago
The app is compiled for Big Sur but I did not test it and received conflicting reports whether it works or not. Please try it and let me know! Thanks!
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by waydabber 5y ago
SwitchResX I think is different. It is superior in a way that it creates additional display modes which macOS then can use as a native resolutions on Intel. On M1 the problem is that it can only create scaled resolutions and even at that ca
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by waydabber 5y ago
I don't think displayplacer is intended to create a virtual display, it seems to be a CLI to manipulate display modes and mirroring for existing display so these seem to be two different things entirely. I might be wrong of course.
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by waydabber 5y ago
No, you won't have trouble using your Mac at native resolutions with an 1920x1200 display, you don't need BetterDummy for that! :)
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by waydabber 5y ago
I stand corrected, 4:3 (16:12) is already available in the app just wasn't thinking right lol. So Sidecar scaling is supported as of now.
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by waydabber 5y ago
Yeah thanks @alin23 for creating extra work for me lol :), I'll be working on fixing that in MonitorControl ( https://monitorcontrol.app ).
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by waydabber 5y ago
Hmm. Didn't think of that use, but tried it and works nicely. However BetterDummy does not have 4:3 (iPad) aspect ratio support as of 1.0.7, I'll add so SideCar would fill the iPad screen properly.
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by waydabber 5y ago
BetterDummy will not help with that, the app fully runs in user space as a normal app and can start after login.
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by waydabber 5y ago
There is some difference, but it is marginal indeed at least in terms of speed. Via the traitional route with a real dummy, the display hardware needs to produce two sets of displayport output streams (one of which is converted to HDMI via
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by waydabber 5y ago
You can simply create two dummies and mirror each one to separate displays. Or you can use the 4K display as is (since it will natively have 1920x1080 HiDPI on M1) and create a dummy to use with the QHD display to get 1920x1080 HiDPI.
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by waydabber 5y ago
Of course, you can configure everything as usual under System Preferences/Displays. If you have a 2+ display setup for example, you can create a Dummy, mirror it to one display but leave the other display unaffected. Or you can create
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by waydabber 5y ago
Yeah, I made this app as I switched a family member's mac from an Intel mini to M1 and was mystified by the fact that no matter what tricks I was trying, it was not working with the Lenovo 24" QHD display as before (getting a 4K d