How would I automatically set two different resolutions? #4111
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Seriously, why are there so many totally different UI modes visible online, none of which appear for me? I'm not some n00b, and I've been using computers for 40 years. I keep clicking through all the menus, sure that I can find how to set resolution favorits, but it's like I'm trapped in some kind of UI hell. I get tat this is a powerful program, but how can anything be designed in this way? (Left pic is what I'm trying to find based on a Youtube video, right pic is what I'm being shown.) 
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OK! I finally found it. I needed to magically know to click on the display to uncover the secret hidden menu that shows Display Mode. Imagine my embarrassment at spending 20 minutes in the app itself, with its myriad of deep menus, none of which could accomplish what I needed. It is nice that I have a huge amount of power to control my monitor. It is frustrating that the UI is not intuitive, and seemingly has been changed recently so that many of the articles I was searching for showed me a totally different UI (for the main icon's settings). |
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I see your point, but honestly - when you start the app the first time, there is a huge orange "Click to show/hide features…" sign with a bouncing arrow (as shown on your screenshot) indicating where you should click to get further menu options. You can simply add your preferred resolutions to favorites and assign keyboard shortcuts to them (favorites will be easily selectable with the slider and the display mode menu as well). |
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Sorry to vent, I did get it working to my satisfaction. It's an impressive tool and rightly highly regarded by the power users over on Reddit. Just hard to set up initually... |
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No problem. :) |
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Not to diss this popular program, but how does one make a program with a complexity 1000x what it needs to be? I just want to flip between two different resolutions using a keyboard shortcut, and I'm basically up to my elbows in menus with not a hint of which direction I should go in. It's nice that there's a slider that allows me to set the resolution, but how would I set this via a shortcut?
(I guess I'll go the CLI route and do it with Keyboard Maestro. My view that this is the most overly complex UI I've ever encountered stands, though. It's not helpful that a lot of the help articles on github and elsewhere seem to use a version of BetterDisplay with a massively different UI, which adds even more confusion.)
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