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Misha Kushka
Misha Kushka

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I finally fixed Dell monitor brightness on my MacBook (Apple Silicon)

If you use a Dell monitor with a MacBook (M1/M2/M3), you know the pain:

  • Brightness keys only affect the MacBook
  • External monitor stays blinding
  • Popular apps are laggy or broken on Apple Silicon

So I built a fix.

What it does

A tiny CLI tool that automatically syncs your Dell monitor brightness with your MacBook — smoothly, in real time, no UI.

Runs silently in the background. Set once, forget forever.

One-command setup

bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kushkamisha/dell-brightness-sync/main/install.sh)
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Or run instantly:

npx @mkushka/dell-brightness-sync
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How it works

  • Reads actual Mac brightness via corebrightnessdiag
  • Controls Dell monitors via hardware DDC/CI (m1ddc)
  • No Electron, no accessibility hacks, no permissions hell

Links

Open-source. MIT. Built because I was annoyed 😄

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