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waydabber opened this issue Mar 9, 2025 · 1 comment
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Sidecar displays are not detected properly on Intel Macs - connect switch and brightness control does not work as expected #4118

waydabber opened this issue Mar 9, 2025 · 1 comment
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Issue reported here: https://discord.com/channels/903276571773771796/903276571773771799/1348186370446852206

Sidecar seems to show up as a third party external display for the user:

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On Intel the app misclassified virtual screens and therefore did not look for the Sidecar API for proper configuration. Sorry about that.

@waydabber waydabber changed the title Brightness control for Sidecar displays might not work by default on Intel Macs. Sidecar displays are not detected properly on Intel Macs - connect switch and brightness control does not work as expected Apr 14, 2025
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