README.md

MonitorControl

Control your external monitor brightness, contrast or volume directly from a menulet or with keyboard native keys.

Translations: 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇯🇵 🇵🇱

Bonus: Using keyboard keys displays the native osd

Download

Go to Release and download the latest .dmg

Installing with Homebrew Cask

You can also install MonitorControl with Homebrew Cask.

$ brew install --cask monitorcontrol

How to help

Open issues if you have a question, an enhancement to suggest or a bug you've found. If you want you can fork the code yourself and submit a pull request to improve the app.

How to build

Required

• Xcode
• Carthage
• Swiftlint
• SwiftFormat
• BartyCrouch (for updating localizations)

Clone the project

$ git clone https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl.git

Then download the dependencies with Carthage

$ carthage bootstrap --platform macOS

You're all set ! Now open the MonitorControl.xcodeproj with Xcode

Third party dependencies

• MediaKeyTap
• MASPreferences
• DDC.swift
• AMCoreAudio

Support

• macOS Sierra (10.12) and up.
• Works with monitors controllable via DDC.

Contributors

• @the0neyouseek
• @reitermarkus
• @JoniVR

Thanks

• @bluejamesbond (Original developer)
• @Tyilo (Fork)
• @Bensge - (Used some code from his project NativeDisplayBrightness)
• @nhurden (For the original MediaKeyTap)
• @kfix (For ddcctl)