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mending3
12-04-2021, 09:17 AM
I have 4K Monitor and DisplayLink doesn't support 2560 x 1440 (HiDPI) for Mac M1 until this day.
This is massive pain to me as I just bought the docking station without realizing this issue in the first place.
Everything is either too big or too small when choosing resolutions.
I can't get the docking station working without DisplayLink.
I just want to use the dock with the native mac support with HDMI cable connected to the dock.
Is it possible to do it?

JanB
12-04-2021, 12:00 PM
I have 4K Monitor and DisplayLink doesn't support 2560 x 1440 (HiDPI) for Mac M1 until this day.
This is massive pain to me as I just bought the docking station without realizing this issue in the first place.
Everything is either too big or too small when choosing resolutions.
I can't get the docking station working without DisplayLink.
I just want to use the dock with the native mac support with HDMI cable connected to the dock.
Is it possible to do it?

I don't think it's possible to use alt mode via a DisplayLink dock as well (I haven't found a dock that supports it, anyway).

But there is a workaround that you can try: https://www.displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=67982

This gives you HiDPI 2560x1440 @ 4K via DisplayLink.

mending3
12-04-2021, 04:56 PM
tried it and I noticed I was not able to switch between windows using three fingers swipe on second monitor, which also hurts.
have you experienced this when using BetterDummy?

JanB
12-04-2021, 07:35 PM
tried it and I noticed I was not able to switch between windows using three fingers swipe on second monitor, which also hurts.
have you experienced this when using BetterDummy?

This is one of the known issues of BetterDummy (https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22known+issue%22)