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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by panda88888 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @06:44PM (#29743020)
I use rectangle with a 5k2k 40” ultra wide monitor and it’s awesome. Very flexible and customizable, and I highly recommended it. Did I mention it’s free and open source? :)
Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by rconti on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:00PM (#29743156)
Which monitor? I'd been waiting for the LG (forever) and finally ordered the Lenovo, although my shipping updates keep changing. I'll have to try rectangle once it's here.
Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by panda88888 on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:34AM (#29745837)
Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by cyberpunk on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:03PM (#29743648)
Hows the macOS support on these? I’m due a monitor upgrade and an ultra wide is where I’m leaning..
Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by movedx on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:05PM (#29744020)
I can give you some insight here.

I've been using a Samsung C49RG9x (49" ultra-wide) on Windows 10 for about four months. It was absolutely the right move to shift from 2 or 3 1080p monitors to a single 49" ultra-wide unit.

Now I've switched back to using my 2020 13" MBP, and thus macOS, as my work horse. Long story short I had to use a previously bought "CalDigit Thunderbolt Station 3 Plus" (a dock, basically) to get the monitor to work correctly. This is because macOS cannot correctly render to the monitor over HDMI.

I don't know why this is (because I don't really know much about displays or display protocols - I don't care to neither) but I tried a few cables and adapters and it gave me an odd resolution (3840x1080 I think) and a pink tint over the whole display.

The CalDigit "dock" solved this as it exposes a Display Port (1.2) option to the Mac. The moment I plugged in the dock and then plugged the monitor into it via Display Port it worked flawlessly.

That being said I still had to go into the display settings in macOS and change the resolution from "Default for display" to "Scaled". It's at that point you can choose the correct "5120x1440" native resolution for the monitor.

I believe I'm getting a 120Hz refresh rate too.

I've been extremely happy combining the ultra-wide with macOS and using Rectangle (which replaces FancyZones on Windows 10 for me) to "tile" windows all over the place.

I hope this was helpful.

Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by rconti on Friday December 31, 2021 @10:18AM (#29748759)
I have a CalDigit TS3 as well. I can't really explain why (for the same reasons you can't), but I could never get the right combo of cables to get 4K @ 60hz on 2 27" displays until using the dock-- and I've used a lot of cables, always buying the ones that claim to be the latest displayport/thunderbolt, whatever.
Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by movedx on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:13PM (#29755450)
It's pretty annoying, but now I've got the dock every problem I've had has melted away. Woohoo!
Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by rconti on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:52PM (#29743936)
I'll find out when it arrives!