mediamate only shows up on internal display but not external

avichou commented 4 months ago

the now playing notch only shows up on internal mba m1 display no matter what. it only shows up on external display if triggered within mediamate settings

Expected behavior now playing should show up on external monitor as well

Please complete the following information:

OS: sonoma 14.3.1
Device [. M1 Macbook Air]
Version [3.1.2 build 258

Wouter01 commented 4 months ago

What option have you set in the "Display Behvaior" settings? (mediamate settings -> general). Which event controller mode have you set? (mediamate settings -> general -> event controller mode). For the BetterDisplay & Lunar modes, MediaMate will show the HUD on the display the other app tells it should show, so it could be misconfigured there.

avichou commented 4 months ago

What option have you set in the "Display Behvaior" settings? (mediamate settings -> general). Which event controller mode have you set? (mediamate settings -> general -> event controller mode). For the BetterDisplay & Lunar modes, MediaMate will show the HUD on the display the other app tells it should show, so it could be misconfigured there.

for "display behavior" I use "display with mouse" . (neither of the 3 options make a different as far as notch goes sadly)

for event mode, i only use those two ,as both lunar and better display mean...more stuff running in the background right ?

speaking of, how much ram does mediamate typically takes ? just curious

but anyway, for now "classic HUD" is much more complete than "notch HUD" so I settled on classic :)

Wouter01 commented 4 months ago

Could you try restarting the app when your external display is connected? It could be that something goes wrong and mediamate doesn't know a new display is connected.

Lunar and BetterDisplay are two separate apps which both allow you to control the brightness of external third party displays. While both are relatively lightweight, they will indeed also run in the background.

As MediaMate is intended to constantly run, I have mostly focused on keeping the power usage as low as possible, but have also focused on keeping the memory usage minimal. Version 3 brought additional power savings, and the coming update will do too (in certain cases). As for memory usage, in normal day-to-day usage, the app should use around 25-50MBs of RAM. Opening the settings window will increase this with +/- 20 MB and this won't go down until the app has restarted (because of some reasons)

avichou commented 4 months ago

Could you try restarting the app when your external display is connected? It could be that something goes wrong and mediamate doesn't know a new display is connected.

Lunar and BetterDisplay are two separate apps which both allow you to control the brightness of external third party displays. While both are relatively lightweight, they will indeed also run in the background.

As MediaMate is intended to constantly run, I have mostly focused on keeping the power usage as low as possible, but have also focused on keeping the memory usage minimal. Version 3 brought additional power savings, and the coming update will do too (in certain cases). As for memory usage, in normal day-to-day usage, the app should use around 25-50MBs of RAM. Opening the settings window will increase this with +/- 20 MB and this won't go down until the app has restarted (because of some reasons)

i restarted it but it's still the same (only with notch mode, not classic )

yeah I see. I use monitor control already. might look into those options instead hmm

I see! thanks . yeah that's some really nice optimizing , good job :))

Wouter01 commented 4 months ago

Oh, so when using classic mode, everything works as expected?

avichou commented 4 months ago

Oh, so when using classic mode, everything works as expected?

yes, yes indeed. for now classic mode is far more advanced anyway so ig that's all good :)

the only thing where notch mode is superior is that you don't need to expand panel in order to scrub through the song . meanwhile classic mode small/default HUD doesnt have music control without clicking for big HUD

Wouter01 commented 4 months ago

Okay, thanks for the info. The classic style will eventually get redesigned so it follows the layout of the notch style more.

avichou commented 4 months ago

Okay, thanks for the info. The classic style will eventually get redesigned so it follows the layout of the notch style more.

i see :) as long as it doesn't lose features i'm all for it ;p . classic has way more features than notch rn