Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by aftbit on Monday July 03, 2023 @11:22PM
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Does it support DDC over i2c? I want at least sleep mode, input, and brightness control.
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Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by 111111IIIIIII on Monday July 03, 2023 @11:58PM
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Sorry, I am not quite sure what that is. Sleep works great with my PC (motherboard is ASRock WRX80 Creator) and M1 MBP, but I can only adjust brightness through the OSD.
Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by Toutouxc on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:24AM
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There’s a Mac app called Lunar that uses DDC (a protocol for sending commands to a screen) to allow you to adjust the brightness and volume of an external monitor with the usual keys on your MacBook keyboard (in clamshell mode at least) or with a slider. Very convenient, can’t recommend enough.
Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by 111111IIIIIII on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:45AM
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Oh OK sorry but yeah I wouldn't use that. If this is usually supported on Dell monitors, I would bet it works on these.
Personally, I rarely adjust brightness on my desktop displays and my ZMK keyboard volume buttons work reliably cross-platform.
Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by Toutouxc on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:12AM
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I you don’t need it, you don’t need it, but I don’t understand the first sentence. Many different displays support DDC, my Philips at home does and the Dells and I think BenQ that we have at the office do too.
Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by 111111IIIIIII on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:33AM
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My macbook is my work laptop and the bosses don't like us installing too many extra things.
I wish my personal was a mac as well, but I had to abandon macs when they abandoned me by not upgrading the mac pro for like a decade then kept me away by later ending support for eGPUs.
Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by garyfirestorm on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:24AM
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i know my old Dell Ultrasharp U2415 supports this feature.
There is a tool in linux with which you can switch input, also dell has a display manager in windows which allows you to perform the switching and controls.
I totally love it!
Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by alin23 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:40AM
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Lunar dev here. Looks like it does support DDC brightness control: https://f.alinpanaitiu.com/nAa7gs/Image.png
I checked this on https://db.lunar.fyi using the following query:
select control, name from displays where name like '%U3224K%'
Can’t be sure about DDC input switching though, I have no way of knowing that it works without trying it in front of the monitor. DDC reports success even if the command failed to switch the input.
Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
by nathancahill on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:50AM
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Just wanted to say, thanks for the fantastic app. It's the first thing I install on a new computer.