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Support for MacOS Catalina

Open Jolopu opened this issue 5 years ago • 9 comments

After upgrade to Catalina NativeDisplayBrightness stopped working. The process starts but there is no menu and the brightness keys don't react. New installation and updating the security settings brought no change. Will there be Catalina support?

Jolopu avatar Feb 19 '20 16:02 Jolopu

It supports Catalina, though. I’m successfully using the app on two different machines running Catalina – one was upgraded from Mojave and another had a fresh installation.

So there’s probably another reason why it’s not working for you.

Cinamonas avatar Feb 19 '20 18:02 Cinamonas

@Jolopu You might need to go into System Preferences -> Security & Privacy And make sure that the app is ticked under "Accessibility"

kevingrabher avatar Feb 25 '20 16:02 kevingrabher

Thanks Kevin. I did that but no change. Process is running but no GUI. I used this fork: https://github.com/KAMIKAZEUA/NativeDisplayBrightness/ This worked for me.

Jolopu avatar Feb 25 '20 17:02 Jolopu

I found an even better alternative: https://github.com/the0neyouseek/MonitorControl It recognizes my monitor. I can even set the contrast.

Jolopu avatar Feb 25 '20 19:02 Jolopu

I found an even better alternative: https://github.com/the0neyouseek/MonitorControl It recognizes my monitor. I can even set the contrast.

@Jolopu Thanks a lot! It works so much better! I can finally use F1/F2 for their true purpose and use brightness keys for the brightness!

dmatora avatar May 10 '20 02:05 dmatora

Not working on MacOs 10.15.4 (MBP 15" retina early 2013). I can see the native osd graphics by pressing fn+F1/F2 but nothing happens. Built and reinstalled several times. I also tried MonitorControl and it is not working either. Please let me know if you find out something.

psykocar avatar May 24 '20 20:05 psykocar

I'm using 10.15.4 without issue. Did it work for you on other macOS versions? Did you enable MonitorControl in Accessibility and restart the app? Does your monitor supports DDC/CI? Are you plugging monitor directly to computer or via some kind of a dock?

dmatora avatar May 24 '20 20:05 dmatora

Actually I need the application for the built-in retina display. Since I have to force the power-off of the discreteGPU (NVidia GeForce GT650M) the native brightness control does not work. I don’t know if the native retina display supports DDC/CI, but others suggest to use NativeDisplayBrightness to solve this issue in my this scenario. I enabled both MonitorControl and NativeDisplayBrightness in accessibility and also rebooted. Unfortunately I haven’t tried the apps in previous versions of MacOs.

psykocar avatar May 24 '20 21:05 psykocar

Built in display brightness should be controlled native both when driven by iGPU/dGPU

dmatora avatar May 24 '20 21:05 dmatora