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Focusing 🐵
Hill Liu
HillLiu
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Focusing 🐵
Repetition is the mother of all skills.
And also the most ruthless skill.
[Leave no stone unturned].
And these skills will forever pay off.
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How to create a 1280x1080 (among others) scaled resolutions for your non-standard monitor
Ultrawide monitors with PBP (Picture by Picture) are becoming more common these days. It allows you to split the screen and connect multiple sources to your monitor (e.g. 2 computers at the same time)
The problem is that the resolution is typically not supported out of the box (E.g. a 2560x1080 monitor, when split into 2 will require a 1280x1080 resolution, which is not standard in Mac OS as of Sierra)
Creating custom resolutions
First, we have to reboot in rootless mode, and disable the Integrity Protection, so we can create/override the screen file settings:
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