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A comment on Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors.

Re:Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on ext... by wanghq on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:55PM (#24344656)
Got a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) weeks ago and bought a LG monitor (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YGZ7C1K). The brightness setting bothered me for 2 weeks as neither the Mac OSX nor LG's onscreen control software can set the brightness for the external monitor. The external monitor brightness changes every time I open/close the macbook lid. Thanks to both ddcctl and MonitorControl, I can finally set a fixed brightness. Wondering why big corps fail to provide the basic features while some open source software can do?
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Re:Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on ext... by JamesBrooks on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:47PM (#24349227)
How have you found MacOS' font rendering on the 1440p display? I've been having all sorts of trouble in some applications having terrible font rendering while others are perfectly fine running at the monitor's native resolution.
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Re:Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on ext... by hashmap on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:07AM (#24350137)
This may be of help https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-fixing-external-m...
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Re:Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on ext... by BillinghamJ on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:03PM (#24344746)
The LG UltraFine displays do support this (in fact there's no OSD/controls on the physical things at all) so it definitely is possible and something LG can do
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Re:Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on ext... by willseth on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:14PM (#24344904)
Automatic dimming only works in the recently refreshed (mid 2019) UltraFines. It doesn't work in the original models sold from 2016-2019, despite advertising and product documentation claims that it does.
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Re:Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on ext... by dapids on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:46PM (#24345309)
I have the exact same setup and same issues!! So frustrating.
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Re:Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on ext... by wanghq on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:53PM (#24345432)
Have you tried MonitorControl? It solved my problem. I guess Lunar should also work.
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Re:Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on ext... by dapids on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:42PM (#24348426)
Yes, I ended up just using Lunar. But no, never tried MonitorControl.
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