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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.
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BetterDummy
Discontinued 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]
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Mac Mini M4 Pro Display Resolutions
BetterDisplay has been helpful with these types of issues in my experience. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
- BetterDisplay: Extra Configuration Options for macOS
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Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
I've been using 42" 4K TVs as my monitor for like 10 years now. 2 years ago I upgraded to an OLED LG A1 and it has been amazing.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/a1-oled
For anyone using a TV I recommend using https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay to properly scale the display.
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DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
Thanks for sharing this! My main issue with the windowed projectors is that you can't force them to have the proper size for the resolution of the OBS canvas which causes the result to be scaled and it has window borders. I've worked around this by having a virtual display (in my case BetterDisplay [1], but DeskPad should work as well) and use the full-screen projector instead, as an added benefit there is no additional window floating around. The resolutions are all aligned, so no scaling.
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[1] https://betterdisplay.pro/
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No more blurry fonts in Linux
BetterDisplay HiDPI feature (available on the free version) much improves font rendering on external displays: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
This helped me a lot, I was about to ditch my external monitor because of blurriness.
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macOS Sequoia is available today
Interesting, I've never seen a big Github project with only a `README.md` before. It looks like they moved the open source part to a new branch[1], before halting the open development completely (I don't mind, just observing).
1. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/tree/opensource
- BetterDisplay for macOS: Flexible HiDPI scaling and more
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Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
> the 4K monitors the author recommends are not good for macOS due to them not supporting native retina scaling above 1080p
Is this true even with the help of 3rd party apps?
My 3840x1600 ultrawide has that problem using the native screen resolution tools but I can get it to full-res HiDPI using BetterDisplay [0].
[0] https://betterdisplay.pro/
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Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
2. "BetterDisplay" for better scaling quality on bigger screens, especially if you have a 4k ultrawide. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
- BetterDisplay: macOS Display Utility App
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