
The exclamation mark indicates that brightness is controlled by gamma table manipulation or shade, as the monitor is plugged in via HDMI and macOS blocks the DDC signal via HDMI for whatever reason. IMac users shouldn’t need to use this, unless they want to control the brightness of a second attached monitor. 1 point by tsujp 60 days ago past 2 comments. I find myself manually adjusting the brightness more often now to suit my environment and therefore can only help my eyes and eye strain.Īs I don’t use an Apple display and it’s a desktop, this works out nicely to get the functionality of MacBooks, but at the comfort of my desk. MonitorControl Control your displays brightness like a native Apple Display (/monitorcontrol).
MONITORCONTROL SOFTWARE
Overall I’m happy with the software - it works and allows me to adjust the brightness on the fly, without having to navigate the menus on the individual monitor. It even has a nice menu bar icon to control brightness if so required, though I find the standad keyboard buttons to be more than sufficient. MonitorControlis related to brightness keyboard macos swift volume topics. I can even change keyboard shortcuts if I wanted to and play around with the settings. MonitorControl is a popular opensource software developed by MonitorControl in Swift having 16608 stars. Once installed, it picked up both of my screens.Īnd I’m then able to control the brightness using the keyboard without any issues 2. The software itself is free and open source and runs natively on Apple Silicon processors and works on Intel Macs 1. Monitor Control allows for controlling the screen brightness using software.


I’d resolved myself to using the clunky menus that come with the monitors to adjust this myself.

MONITORCONTROL SERIAL
It can control the power state by either using windows power management technology, or by issuing a command via the serial port. When using the desktop, I’ve always missed the ability to adjust the screen brightness easily within macOS using the keyboard, like you can on the MacBook and generally any Windows laptop. Monitor Control is a system tray application that allows the user to schedule a monitor to power on and off. They’re both setup on my desk, with the LG as my main monitor and the Dell as a secondary monitor off to the side. I’ve got a Mac Mini and this is hooked up to a LG 27UL850-W and Dell S2421NX monitor.
