Not if only someone could figure out how to make external monitors on mac actually work consistently. Macos still tends to not pick up the correct refresh rate or even the monitor itself.
MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
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Re: MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
#32Works great with my Iiyama ProLite 82888UHSU / MBP 15" late 2016 / CalDigit dock. Nice one!
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#33What are the keys anyway? I'm using a WASD Code Tenkeyless keyboard so only have F1 through F12.
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#34macOS should ship with this feature by default.
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#35OMG, thank you so much danso and all the developers of this app! This is the biggest inconvenience and overall PITA docking my MBP, it annoys me constantly on a daily basis. just tried it out, it's like my prayers were answered!
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#36This is too awesome! Adjusting the brightness of my monitor has been a pain especially at night since WFH. Does this work with dynamic lighting?
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#37Great codebase. I stumbled on this while trying to figure out how to programmatically control screen brightness in a macOS app. Turns out that this is far more difficult than imagined. Even controlling just the built-in screen, something I assumed would be included in Apple's libraries, was not included. The source code in MonitorControl is very well written and commented and helped me catch the mistakes I was doing…
Doing anything on macOS is more difficult than I imagine it to be. For example, writing an alt-tab-type app, enumerating the list of apps and their windows. Good luck.
You can get the dock icon (app) list pretty easily, along with their windows
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#38On linux: `ddcutil setvcp 0x10 + ` to increase brightness (and - to lower it). Ymmv.
An eye saver with this ultra lightweight 16" USB-C travel monitor I picked up.
On resume from suspend the monitor always dims down to some ridiculously low setting, and without `ddcutil` I'd have to manually adjust the brightness via hardware toggle. As a workaround for the limitation of the monitor I just have a bash script that invokes `ddcutil` on resume from suspend - wonderful :)
Re: MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
#39Great codebase. I stumbled on this while trying to figure out how to programmatically control screen brightness in a macOS app. Turns out that this is far more difficult than imagined. Even controlling just the built-in screen, something I assumed would be included in Apple's libraries, was not included. The source code in MonitorControl is very well written and commented and helped me catch the mistakes I was doing…
Doing anything on macOS is more difficult than I imagine it to be. For example, writing an alt-tab-type app, enumerating the list of apps and their windows. Good luck.
The famous Dropbox Mac finder hack. It may have been mythologized a little, as Rajiv Eranki was probably the genius hacker who figured it out.
> Here’s that rare Steve Jobs story, one that’s never been told, about the company that got away. Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that.
> Rajiv Eranki (early employee, no longer at Dropbox) did much of the reverse-engineering required to get the our file overlay icons onto files in the Finder, and also to get us into context menus.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropb...
https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-t...
Re: MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
#40Does anyone have trouble with their Macbook recognizing an external display? I have a new 2020 Macbook Pro and it struggles to recognize my Samsung display. I often have to reboot the Mac for it to be recognized.