robbertkl/resolutionmenu

Simple OS X status bar menu app to switch display modes / resolutions, with support for HiDPI (retina) modes

Resolution Menu

Simple OS X status bar menu app to switch display modes / resolutions, with support for HiDPI (retina) modes.

• For quick access, if you have 1 display only, the display modes can be found at the top level of the menu. For 2 or more displays, each display will have its own submenu.

• The list of attached devices / supported display modes is refreshed each time the menu is opened; no need to ever refresh manually.

• No color depth information is shown; if a resolution is available with different color depths, only the display mode with the highest color depth will be used.

• CoreGraphics private APIs are used to access the HiDPI display modes; this might not get this app accepted into the Mac App Store. Also note that CGDisplayIOServicePort(), which is used to get the (localized) name of the displays, has been deprecated as of Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks).

• To facilitate "Start at Login", the ServiceManagement.framework is used together with a helper app, which should work in a sandboxed environment as well (as long as the app lives in /Applications).

For a command line utility with the same functionality, check out antmd/resolution-cli.

Enabling HiDPI display modes

To enable HiDPI modes on a non-retina device, execute this in the Terminal app:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool true

Then, for the change to take effect, either log out and back in or restart your system.

Installation

Just fetch the latest ZIP from the release section and put the extracted app into your Applications folder.

You might need to disable OS X Gatekeeper to run it: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General tab > Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere.

Authors

• Robbert Klarenbeek, [email protected]

Credits

• Thanks to Alex Zielenski for StartAtLoginController, which ties together the ServiceManagement stuff without even a single line of code (gotta love KVO).

• Thanks to ExitMothership for his LED Cinema Display Icon, which is used for the app icon.

• The vector drawing used for the status menu icon was made by Elegant Themes from Flaticon.

License

Resolution Menu is published under the MIT License.

resolutionmenu's Issues

No release, no dmg file

I would like to test your software (:

unfortunately, I have neither the skill nor the setup to compile this by my own. according to the readme.md, there is a dmg file for the latest release, but there is no release.

is this repo still active?

show frequency request

is it possible to add the hz to the display outputs? 1920x1080_60, 1920x1080_30 or something along that line.

thanks

Quick Question - Operating Systems PRE 10.11?

Quick Question - Resolution Menu App - Can it be built for systems Pre 10.11 ? It would be great if you could go back to operating systems as far as 10.6.8. Anyway, I await some feedback as to this request and thank you for the hard work in the meantime!

Cluttered menu on non-HiDPI external displays with HiDPI options

I tested it with a non-HiDPI external display, which yields following strange list of options:

Apart from that resolution change works without problems. I will still reopen that because the menu is cluttered, but it's not a critical bug.

Originally posted by @iemg in #6 (comment)

(forgot, that as an non collaborator I can't reopen issues if I didn't close them myself :))

Lack of sharpness when scaling to 2560x1440 resolution on a monitor with native 1920x1080 max resolution

Thanks for the great app. I'm very happy to have found a solution that will simulate a 2560x1440 resolution on my display. However, when selecting this resolution on my natively 1920x1080 max resolution monitor, the sharpness of the display is affected somewhat. I know this is to be expected when simulating a resolution higher than a display natively supports; but I wanted to ask in here if the developers or community have any ideas to improve this sharpness issue at all.

Thanks.

in my computer it no work in 1280*720

in my computer it no work in 1280*720,but work in 1280x800

Apple Silicon

Hello! Love this handy tool and wonder if it will be ported to Apple Silicon? :)

Best