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by jakehilborn 1095 days ago
Self-plug of displayplacer[0] for changing screen resolutions/rotations/etc via the command line.

[0] https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer
3 comments
joshstrange 1095 days ago
This tool is invaluable, I love it so much. I have 2 workspaces and I love just running the command (via Alfred) when I plug into my dock at either place that fixes all my monitors. I could script it so that as soon as my computer recognizes a monitor UUID it fires off the correct displayplacer command but I don't switch often enough to care (the 2 desks are 3.5+ hours apart).

When I was commuting daily displayplacer was even more indispensable but even for just unplugging my mac and using the internal screen vs my monitors I get a ton of value out of this tool.

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greenshackle2 1095 days ago
I was hoping this would let me set 125% scaling on my 3440x1440 display but no, I guess it's a hard OS limitation. It's my biggest gripe with MacOS.

(There's BetterDisplay - formerly BetterDummy - but it introduces noticeable input lag for me.)

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janandonly 1095 days ago
Does this tool also allow me to change my iPad screen on Sidecar from landscape/horizontal into vertical?
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jakehilborn 1095 days ago
It's not something that I've tried. There was a user report at the bottom of this GitHub issue that states sidecar rotation does not work.

https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer/issues/17

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