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Control monitor settings using DDC/CI and USB

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-03-27 · latest 2026-05-18

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  1. …form of maybe checking that others have successfully used DDC commands on your particular model. https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/153
    comment by GeorgeDewar · 2026-05-18 · in Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
  2. …(0x50 rather that 0x51). But I agree it is painful. Yet I prefer it over my cable spaghetti. [0] https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/wiki/Switching-input-so...
    comment by clan · 2026-05-18 · in Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
  3. …every time my monitors turn off. [1] Might be https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5984 [2] https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/556
    comment by srjek · 2026-01-04 · in KDE onboarding is good now
  4. …degrees of finesse. Non-exhaustive list: Linux: https://github.com/ddccontrol/ddccontrol || https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil macOS: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl Windows: https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
    comment by theodric · 2023-10-13 · in Scrollbars are becoming a problem
  5. …Not aware of a similarly polished GUI tool on linux, but I use this: https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil It's been super convenient having found all these tools (I use all 3!) for software control of monitors recently.
    comment by nyc640 · 2022-03-23 · in Monitorian (Windows monitor control app)
  6. On Linux, there is a very comprehensive CLI utility called ddcutil: https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil The same author also made some kind of UI for it but I haven't used it so I don't know how it looks or performs:…
    comment by alin23 · 2021-07-30 · in The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
  7. …eye strain after less than 5 minutes. [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/37 [2] https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/11 [3] https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/146
    comment by ohazi · 2020-12-14 · in Linux 5.10
  8. …excited about this release. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Sharing-Computers-Perip... [1] https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/1/300
    comment by ohazi · 2020-12-14 · in Linux 5.10
  9. The equivalent for Linux users are ddccontrol and ddcutil. https://github.com/ddccontrol/ddccontrol https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil
    comment by bsilvereagle · 2018-03-27 · in Reading a VGA monitor's configuration data with I2C and a PocketBeagle