Brightness Control with Hardware Keys to "Lock" at Change from Native to Extended Brightness

[chrisspiegl]

I love that BetterDisplay opens up the option to have my MacBook monitor go brighter than with the native brightness levels.

Would it be possible to have some kind of “Lock” at the intersection between the native and extended brightness range?

I see the icon, but that is sometimes difficult to catch.

I am thinking of something like:

• Press and hold Brightness + button ⇒ it goes to max native brightness. Then go to further, you have to let go and press the button again to go brighter. If it's already at max, it should require a double press of the brightness button to go over to the extended mode.
• Pressing the key individually should just go through or require one double press on the switch point between native & extended.

Another idea would be to have a modifier key to go into the extended brightness range. Like:

• just press the brightness key ⇒ you can only go up to native max
• press CMD + brightness key ⇒ you can move up to the extended levels (once inside extended levels, the key without modifier should also work)

To go down, I would think it would either be an option to keep that working as usual always… or to also make it similar to the above idea to stop at the intersection of extended / native.

Cheers,
Chris

[waydabber]

Well, you can simply create a shortcut (using Shortcuts and betterdisplay's CLI) to set the brightness to a fixed level. With default settings (using combined brightness) the 100% brightness is always at the 10th OSD chiclet (the 16 chiclet matches the max 160%). However with native XDR upscaling enabled (which is preferred to combined brightness and might be the default in future versions) by nature there is one single scale (even more than before).

[chrisspiegl]

Ok, I tested the method with a shortcute + running it via "Alfred". That works too 👍.