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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]
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 test this, please let me know about the results at the project GitHub page (https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy). Thank you!
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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.
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 display was not an option due to cost and size constraints - no good 24" 4K display is available for a reasonable price and there ppl who don't want huge displays on their desks). I purchased a HDMI dummy but had constant issues with it, so I had to explore other avenues.
My creativity is normally put to use on something other, like MonitorControl, but working on BetterDummy is fun as well. :)
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Appwrite
Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support. Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!
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Interesting, for those wondering how this could be useful apart from what's already mentioned in the Readme: Projects like my Weylus [1] or the similar Deskreen [2] would greatly benefit from this as both can mirror your screen to a tablet and like that one could use a dummy display and said tablet to create an additional screen.
On a related note, does anyone know of similar software to create dummy displays on Linux? All I could find so far is some trickery which only works with Intel hardware on X11 [3].
[1]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus
[2]: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen
[3]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus#intel-gpu-on-xorg-with-intel...
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Interesting, for those wondering how this could be useful apart from what's already mentioned in the Readme: Projects like my Weylus [1] or the similar Deskreen [2] would greatly benefit from this as both can mirror your screen to a tablet and like that one could use a dummy display and said tablet to create an additional screen.
On a related note, does anyone know of similar software to create dummy displays on Linux? All I could find so far is some trickery which only works with Intel hardware on X11 [3].
[1]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus
[2]: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen
[3]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus#intel-gpu-on-xorg-with-intel...
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screenresolution
Command line utility for getting, setting and listing display resolution on Mac OS X 10.6+
The option click doesn't seem to work on the internal display on my older mackbook pro (2017 15"), just on external displays. The built in choices for the internal panel don't include the native resolution of 2880x1800. But I can set it with the "screenresolution" utility:
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A-Guide-to-MacOS-Scaled-Resolutions
A guide to adding scaled resolutions in MacOS without losing pixel density.
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InfluxDB
Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.
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