I'd settle for the Mac being smart enough to let me resize each external display to its actual physical size, so dragging between them works. Apparently, Apple thinks it's perfectly OK to assume that all your displays have the same pixel density as your laptop screen - FAIL!
Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
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Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
You never know if a wear leveling algorithm has been implemented so flash type isn't going to make lifetime determinable. Even without, 100 erases a day will last for 3 years or longer.
I've been using my current monitor for ~10 years.
My monitors rarely last that long (at least, before I find it's worth it to upgrade), but like a lot of folks, I put most of my money into good monitors, keyboards, and color laser printers rather than the computers themselves, because I can generally get at least 5-10 years out of the peripherals. Computers themselves rarely last me more than 3-4 years, although my wife still uses one of my old Surface Pro 3s as her main computer - it's held up better than the SP4s.
If I could get a pair of Surface Studio touch monitors to dock with a Surface Pro/Book, I'd buy them, but yeah, I'd be real careful with them, too...
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#93This is a great example of why I like the Touch Bar on my Macbook Pro. When it is connected to an external monitor, I tap the brightness icon in the Touch Bar and get two sliders: one to control brightness on my laptop, and one to control brightness on my external monitor. This seems to be a native feature; I did not install anything to do it.
But why can't they expose these controls independent of the Touch Bar? I actually find it ridiculous as a 2015 MBP owner that there is no easy native way to do this basic thing unless, apparently, you have a Macbook with a Touch Bar
Because, unless you already run Pock, it's the only way to make the touchbar useful...
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#94Alongwith ddctrl ( https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl ), these aliases serve all my external monitor brightness needs: alias verydull="~/Software/ddcctl/ddcctl -d 1 -b 3 -c 15" alias dull="~/Software/ddcctl/ddcctl -d 1 -b 6 -c 35" alias decent="~/Software/ddcctl/ddcctl -d 1 -b 10 -c 40" alias medium="~/Software/ddcctl/ddcctl -d 1 -b 25 -c 50" alias bright="~/Software/ddcctl/ddcctl -d 1 -b 30 -c 50" alias morebright="~/So…
For Linux, use ddcutil. I wrote a GUI slider that wraps around the command line, so I don't have to type the numbers each time.
Well, there's also ddccontrol: https://github.com/ddccontrol/ddccontrol that has an optional GUI. I think that's the one I've used in the past.
Pretty much all monitor settings are exposed.
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#95There is a problem with "cheap" monitors and DDC/CI: some of them use EEPROMs to store brightness settings, and this limits you to about 100,000 writes. Worrying about this is the main reason we don't ship DDC/CI with f.lux. (I know that some more modern monitors use NAND and don't have limitations like this.) Anyone know if these fears are overblown?
I tried to achieve basically what this app does on manual mode some years ago. “How hard could it be?” are the famous last words etched in the three ATI video cards I bricked before giving up.
For things like setting brightness or toggling devices that ought to be dead simple, stuff like DDC/CI and HDMI-CEC being broken on so many levels never fails to make me spectacularly sad.
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#96Also note that MonitorControl [1] might be a good complement to this program - it allows manual setting of brightness and contrast, but also adds volume control. [1] https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl
Lunar also has volume control, could not fit that into the title. It's absolutely great, totally what I needed for years. Other tools I tried crashed my Macbook. Lunar has been absolutely smooth, and great design to boot. I immediately bought the author a coffee. Edit: updated the title
Any hint on where to find volume ctrl?
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#97I've been using ExternalDisplayBrightness for this:
https://www.nesveda.com/projects/ExternalDisplayBrightness/
With my LG 32UL950-W, I've found that whether it responds depends on the cable choice. I had to give up on Thunderbolt because the monitor itself kept resetting; HDMI delivers a picture but doesn't look as good, and doesn't respond to ExternalDisplayBrightness. I'm now using a 10' USB-C to DisplayPort cable (too long for Thunderbolt) and everything works, including ExternalDisplayBrightness.
I'm curious to see if switching to Lunar would gain me anything.
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#98I was unable to figure out how to get this to work with an iMac as a secondary display :(
Looked wonderful though!
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#99The Windows equivalent would be Monitorian ( https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian ). It doesn't have the adaptive curve algorithm, but I've been using it for over a year and it's indispensable.
Twinkle Tray has a few more features (like a scheduler), and is also FOSS.
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#100There is a problem with "cheap" monitors and DDC/CI: some of them use EEPROMs to store brightness settings, and this limits you to about 100,000 writes. Worrying about this is the main reason we don't ship DDC/CI with f.lux. (I know that some more modern monitors use NAND and don't have limitations like this.) Anyone know if these fears are overblown?
Thanks for making f.lux and picasa!