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This is great; though I have less need for it day to day now. I used to have 49" 5120x1440 display. We started with Zoom, which under Advanced would allow part

by mleo 2y ago

This is great; though I have less need for it day to day now. I used to have 49" 5120x1440 display. We started with Zoom, which under Advanced would allow partial desktop sharing. I would draw a 1920x1080 box and move windows in and out of the box. We moved to Teams and Teams only supports Window or Screen sharing. DeskPad would work great for that situation. Create a virtual display, share it and then use it on right part of the physical screen, moving windows in and out as needed. Currently, I use 2 Studio Displays instead of the 1 Wide Screen. When I need to share screens, I press a button on Stream Deck that calls displaypacer to set the resolution on the second display to 1600x900. When done, I press the button again and it toggles the resolution back to 5K. The resolution switching is instantaneous with Apple Silicon/Studio Display making it hassle free.

prmoustache 2y ago
Why do change the resolution instead of the scaling?
- sieabahlpark 2y ago
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- naikrovek 2y ago
  That’s what changing the resolution on MacOS does. On Windows, resolution and DPI are separate settings. On MacOS they are combined into a single “resolution” and you pick from a list that makes sense for the display in question. You pick the “effective resolution“ of the display, but the native screen resolution is always used and the DPI is changed to scale things up or down until they are scaled the same they would be on a monitor of the chosen resolution. There are a few choices in that list, denoted by “(low resolution)” or something, which set the indicated resolution and leave scaling at 100%. Those look horrific on MacOS but they are options.
  - prmoustache 2y ago
    Thanks, makes sense.
- __mharrison__ 2y ago
  Notched MBPs can't do HD through resolution changing. (I would love to be proven wrong on this. See my other comment for hoops I jump through to get around this.)
  - mrunkel 2y ago
    What exactly do you mean by "can't do HD?" I can set my display to 1728x1080. That's HD. I can also output my Mac to an HD TV, Projector, etc. And I have the notch on my MacBook Pro. Do you have some other definition of HD that I'm not understanding?
    - __mharrison__ 2y ago
      1920x1080
- interludead 2y ago
  Might be a matter of clarity and precision
interludead 2y ago
DeskPad definitely seems like it would have been a perfect fit for your transition

by mleo 2y ago

prmoustache 2y ago

Why do change the resolution instead of the scaling?

sieabahlpark 2y ago
[dead]
naikrovek 2y ago
That’s what changing the resolution on MacOS does. On Windows, resolution and DPI are separate settings. On MacOS they are combined into a single “resolution” and you pick from a list that makes sense for the display in question. You pick the “effective resolution“ of the display, but the native screen resolution is always used and the DPI is changed to scale things up or down until they are scaled the same they would be on a monitor of the chosen resolution. There are a few choices in that list, denoted by “(low resolution)” or something, which set the indicated resolution and leave scaling at 100%. Those look horrific on MacOS but they are options.
- prmoustache 2y ago
  Thanks, makes sense.
__mharrison__ 2y ago
Notched MBPs can't do HD through resolution changing. (I would love to be proven wrong on this. See my other comment for hoops I jump through to get around this.)
- mrunkel 2y ago
  What exactly do you mean by "can't do HD?" I can set my display to 1728x1080. That's HD. I can also output my Mac to an HD TV, Projector, etc. And I have the notch on my MacBook Pro. Do you have some other definition of HD that I'm not understanding?
  - __mharrison__ 2y ago
    1920x1080
interludead 2y ago
Might be a matter of clarity and precision

interludead 2y ago

DeskPad definitely seems like it would have been a perfect fit for your transition