Comment by storus

Comment by storus 2 days ago

I recently bought a MacStudio with 512GB of RAM and connected it to a LG 5k2k monitor. For some reason there was no way to change the font size (they removed the text size "Larger Text ... More Space" continuum from the Display section of settings) so I ended up with either super small or super large fonts without anything in-between. In the end I had to install some 3rd party software and mix my own scaled resolution with acceptable font size. This has never been a problem on Linux in the past 10 years, all I needed to do at worst when it wasn't done out of the box was to set scale somewhere and that was it.

Saline9515 2 days ago

I bought a MacStudio 2 months ago, on Sequoia you go to "display" and should see the various resolutions. If not, "advanced">"show resolutions as a list">"show all resolutions".

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storus 2 days ago

Unfortunately, resolutions offered were weird. Native is 5120x2160 but that wasn't offered and scaled resolutions were weird. I guess macOS didn't read monitor's information properly or something. I wasted a few hours frantically trying to figure out how to connect a $12k computer to a 4-year old monitor which should have been a breeze but for some reason wasn't. The same monitor worked fine on Linux or Windows.

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- mrkstu a day ago
  
  Pick up a copy of BetterDisplay. Absolutely useful for monitors with non-standard resolutions.
  
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  bpye a day ago
  
  macOS is the only operating system where you need to use third party software to make this work.
  
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- FireBeyond 2 days ago
  
  I feel like this has something to do with Apple fucking with DP 1.4 for the ProDisplay XDR.
  My 2019 Mac Pro with Catalina could happily drive 2 4K monitors in HDR @ 144 Hz.
  People wondered how Apple got the math to work to drive the ProDisplay.
  Big Sur? Not any more. 95Hz for 4K SDR, 60Hz for 4K HDR. Not the cables, not the monitors. Indeed, "downgrading" the monitors advertised support to DP 1.2 gave better options, 120Hz SDR, 75Hz HDR.
  And it was never fixed, not in Big Sur, Monterey or Ventura, when I had switched monitors.
  Hundreds of reports, hundreds of video/monitor combinations.
  
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- pests 2 days ago
  
  Frantically? For hours? If that is what you meant, did you try stepping back for a few minutes, and coming up with a plan / doing research?
  
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  wtetzner a day ago
  
  Why should someone need to set aside time to do research and come up with a plan to make a brand new (very expensive) computer do what it should do out of the box? Isn't Apple's big selling point that it "just works"?
  
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chrisweekly 2 days ago

Curious what software; I've used "SwitchResX" in the past and it met all my needs...

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storus an hour ago

It was BetterDisplay. Thanks for the hint, will take a look at SwitchResX as well. BetterDisplay looks too complicated for what I need it to do (just switch the screen to 2560x1080 scaled).

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QuercusMax 2 days ago

BetterDisplay has solved a ton of problems like this for me; when MacOS gets confused about non apple monitors, BetterDisplay knows how to fix things.

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jjtheblunt a day ago

it's not removed : you have to hold Option when choosing resolutions, and the panel changes to show myriad options.

i think that's what you're describing, anyway.

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storus a day ago

I tried Option of course, that dumped tons of options at me but none of them were about font scaling.

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- jjtheblunt a day ago
  
  i think (no proof, just experimenting on my 5k2k LG) that the various resolutions imply differing scalings. my eyes are really fortunately good so i just run at 5k2k and it's sharp (because i use larger fonts, app by app, so somewhat manually set scalings).
  
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stephenr 2 days ago

AFAIK the smallest 5K2K is 34", with a PPI of 163. I don't believe that is treated as "HiDPI" by macOS, is it?

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storus a day ago

It should be, its size is somewhat similar to a 31" 4k I have next to it just the ultra-wide adds those extra inches.

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