evdi
Extensible Virtual Display Interface (by DisplayLink)
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)
| evdi | BetterDummy | |
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| 45 | 121 | |
| 675 | 4,920 | |
| 0.7% | - | |
| 8.1 | 9.5 | |
| 5 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| C | Swift | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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evdi
Posts with mentions or reviews of evdi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-17.
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Usb monitor not showing up in display options despite being visible in usb settings?
git clone https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi.git
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Displaylink and Ubuntu on M1
So I'm currently on Ubuntu 22.10 with Mesa and asahi-edge kernel. You need both to allow using primary GPU as source output. I'm using evdi 1.13.1 with the correction to set the module to the 1.12.0 to run the script displaylink from Synaptics for Ubuntu.
- Hdmi output on macbook m1 with asahi linux
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Help needed: Can't install DisplayLink Drivers for my dock. Fedora 37 Kernal 6.2 Evdi 1.12.0, RPM Release isn't working
The RPM version never worked for me. It's only useful for getting the services installed. After that clone the repo from https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi and change to the devel branch. Run make and sudo make install. If you use SecureBoot you also need to sign the resulting evdi.ko with your key. After that restart displaylink.service or reboot and it should work. At least it did for me. I's been a while since I had to use it.
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Display link POP OS 22.04 kernel
Uninstallation steps complete. darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix$ ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184.run --noexec --keep Creating directory displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184 Verifying archive integrity... 100% MD5 checksums are OK. All good. Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 5.6.1-59.184 100% darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix$ cd ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184 darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ curl -L https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/archive/refs/heads/devel.tar.gz -o evdi.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 80603 0 80603 0 0 179k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 179k darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ nano darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ nano evdi.tar.gz darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$
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Multimonitor Issue - Hardware or Driver?
I'm afraid this might be a hardware issue, maybe with the cable. I don't have a second cable to swap out unfortunately. A new one won't be here until Saturday. And it seems like a hell of a coincidence for the cable to fail when there's other issues reported within the last few days that seem very similar.
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Exit code 1 when trying to install stock kernal after in place upgrade to bookworm. (been self compiling 5.15.x in bullseye)
https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi states
- Latest update broke displaylink
- How to revert to kernel 6.0.12
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External Monitors attached trough a Docking Stations staying black
Theres a bug in the 6.2 kernel right now with at least the evdi package (dont know about evdi-git) but can be fixed with a patch. Pr for it is already open but yet to be merged https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/pull/401
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 evdi and BetterDummy you can also consider the following projects:
displaylink-rpm - RPM sources for the DisplayLink USB display adapters
one-key-hidpi - Enable macOS HiDPI and have a native setting.
deskreen - Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
FluffyDisplay - FluffyDisplay: Manage virtual displays on your Mac
pop - A project for managing all Pop!_OS sources
MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
cacao - Rust bindings for AppKit (macOS) and UIKit (iOS/tvOS). Experimental, but working!
RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions
evdipp - Simple C++ wrapper for DisplayLink evdi. Add and manage virtual displays in Linux! Get dummy monitors without attaching physical dongles!
A-Guide-to-MacOS-Scaled-Resolutions - A guide to adding scaled resolutions in MacOS without losing pixel density.
synergy-core - Open source core of Synergy, the cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)