A-Guide-to-MacOS-Scaled-Resolutions
A guide to adding scaled resolutions in MacOS without losing pixel density. (by bbhardin)
BetterDummy
Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, dummy displays, PIP and lots more! [Moved to: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay] (by waydabber)
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A-Guide-to-MacOS-Scaled-Resolutions
Posts with mentions or reviews of A-Guide-to-MacOS-Scaled-Resolutions.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-17.
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Buying an external display
Maybe there's some trickery to get some better results.. https://github.com/bbhardin/A-Guide-to-MacOS-Scaled-Resolutions
- Is there no way to increase the scaling on a Mac without decreasing the resolution?
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Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
Apple can only do this because they control their own hardware and have their fancy retina displays. Apple straight up does not support fractional scaling on displays they don't consider "retina". Retina displays are all 220 DPI or more, which is massive compared to many lower-cost non-Apple devices that do still need fractional scaling. Linux and Windows are not in this position.
- Dummy Display for Apple Silicon Macs to Achieve Custom Resolutions
BetterDummy
Posts with mentions or reviews of BetterDummy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-18.
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whiles exploring immersed, I had a difficult time with keyboard ans hands location, so using a webcam pointed to them in a screen solved the problem :)
BetterDummy lets you create the virtual screens on the computer https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy
- E Ink (Boox Mira, Mudita Pure) Reviews and Tips
- How to make macOS look better on 3440x1440p external monitor with M1 Air?
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Immersed VR app - creating virtual monitor vs using headless ghost dongle
If your on a Mac you can use this software instead of hardware dongles with much higher resolutions https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy
- Your screen is being observed. This appears on lock screen. Seeing it for the first time. What does it mean?
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Alternative to Lunar/Vivid for XDR Brightness?
BetterTouchTool has a SuperBrightness action in the newest beta which works on the same principle as Vivid, while BetterDummy added an XDR slider that works on the same principle as Lunar.
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Apple Intentionally Disabled HiDPI on M1 Macs to Push 4K Monitors Sales
I've had great results with BetterDummy[0] for my M1 make with a non-4K external monitor.
It's free and open source with an optional Pro version. I've been using it longer than the Pro version has been around, so I'm not familiar with what advantages it may have over the free version.
[0] https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy
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KVM for lab macs
You might want to try BetterDummy to add a virtual display to the Mac if there is not a physical one already connected. Might solve the black screen issue.
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Mac Mini M1 with external monitors - text sharpness issues?
I'm currently on MontereyI use this https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy and create a dummy to emulate higher res display
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After 2 and a half hours, I finally managed to get MacOS to recognise my LG Ultrawide as a HiDPI display. Thank you to the developer of OneKeyHiDPI for letting me have properly sized UI elements and scaled text at native 4K resolution!
better dummy, just download it
What are some alternatives?
When comparing A-Guide-to-MacOS-Scaled-Resolutions and BetterDummy you can also consider the following projects:
RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions
one-key-hidpi - Enable macOS HiDPI and have a native setting.