Timeline for answer to Achieving HiDPI on 3rd party external monitor plugged into a modern MacBook (Apple Silicon) by benwiggy
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| Nov 13, 2025 at 20:40 | comment | added | Ben Thomas |
@DmitriK, I found a sharpness setting in my Dell S2722DC monitor settings (accessed by pressing the physical menu button on the monitor itself and scrolling down to Display). The default setting was 50. I increased it, and text became sharper.
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| Mar 4, 2025 at 9:59 | comment | added | benwiggy | @DmitriK You will see plenty of other questions on this subject. It's possible that HDMI (and some cables) gives a worse display; but these things are very subjective. Some people say "it's blurry", and others say "it's fine". I used to have a 27" 2K display, and it looked ok to me. There are some terminal commands for changing the font aliasing, but again, which settings work (at all) or best seems to vary. | |
| Mar 3, 2025 at 19:43 | comment | added | Dmitri K | Okay, understood. The answer is appreciated. I don't need (or want) impossible resolution from this Dell monitor. My issue is that texts are troublesome to read on this monitor. It won't be fixed by resolution settings (which is the highest already). It might get fixed with better anti-aliasing options... But this is the matter for another question. | |
| Mar 3, 2025 at 19:40 | vote | accept | Dmitri K | ||
| Mar 3, 2025 at 19:18 | history | answered | benwiggy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |