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Bensge / NativeDisplayBrightness

macOS display brightness utility for external monitors with a native UI.
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support for monitors without DDC/CI #10

Open dmatora opened 6 years ago

dmatora commented 6 years ago

There are apps that control brightness of monitors that do not support DDC/CI, like Acer AG241QG. Particularly http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades or https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/brightness-slider/id456624497?mt=12 but their interface is horrible. Yet your app interface works on mine AG241QG. It would be really nice to combine software brightness adjustment and MacOS brightness keys/indicator integration. Any hope you can do that?

Volodymyr-13 commented 6 years ago

@dmatora Is that apps really changes display brightness? Like after changes, you open monitor settings and see there % of brightness you set?

dmatora commented 6 years ago

@KAMIKAZEUA no it's a software brightness adjustment

Volodymyr-13 commented 6 years ago

So, I think this is a bad way to do this.. not clean.. I wouldn't ...

CharlesButcher commented 5 years ago

IIRC over the top half of its brightness range Brightness Slider tries to control the actual display brightness if it can. However, that never worked for me even on monitors that support DDC. Then for the bottom half of the range it adds a grey overlay. That's supposed to dim the display beyond what's possible using the built-in brightness control, and is a good solution for monitors that lack DDC. I used to be able to control it via the Fn keys, but at some point that stopped working.

I'm just glad to have discovered NativeDisplayBrightness, which seems a much better solution.

greekVASILIS5 commented 1 year ago

I have LG LG L1900R-BF monitor, it used to have Forte Manager app to control its brightness, i cannot find the this software, i tried other softwares that require DDC but my monitor dont have. Is there any other software that i can try? (The monitor dont have buttons, the only to way to control the brightness is throught the application