Aerial: Feature request: specify which displays show screensaver
Hello, in the options you have Play Aerials:
- different on each display
- mirrored on all displays
- only on main display
Would it be possible to specify which monitors it plays on?
Reason being, in my case I have a 2012 Mac mini that only supports 2 video outputs, but I have a 3rd display connected via a USB to HDMI converter. It's laggy/low frame rate and doesn't look good with a video playing. It's nice having different aerials across all multiple displays but is ruined by the choppy 3rd one. Would be great to just have it on 2 of the 3.
Great software, thanks!
ryan-madrona
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Hi @ryan-madrona
So right now, we don't detect individual monitors, I'm not sure we can do that within the boundaries of the screensaver, I'll have to check.
What we can do right now is differentiate the first one vs "all the others" which is what we implement (there's also a new everything but main display in latest beta).
glouel
on 8 Mar 2019
I thought I'd submitted the same request but can't find it so... +1
JayHoltslander
on 4 Apr 2019
Just a quick heads up, after a lot of fighting with the APIs, it looks like this is doable, although quite convoluted. So tentatively put for next big release, 1.5.0.
glouel
on 9 May 2019
That is great to hear, thank you!
ryan-madrona
on 10 May 2019
This is what it looks like now, will hopefully put a beta out today and update here. You'll have to reconfigure your displays settings as the old ones will be lost in the process :
Display selection (all, main only, sec. only, manual selection) is now independent from viewing mode (independent, mirrorred, and maybe a new one) which makes a lot more sense.
glouel
on 10 May 2019
Beta is up, I would very much appreciate reports. Please check the release note too, you may experience issues. I'm very much interested in reports also about the new "spanned" viewing mode which allows you to span an Aerial on your displays. This should theoretically work with a disabled screen too, although I wasn't able to test it here so feedback welcome.
https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/releases/tag/v1.4.99beta1
glouel
on 10 May 2019
Closed as implemented with the release of 1.5.0
glouel
on 31 May 2019
Been testing this for a bit and it seems to work quite well, thanks!
ryan-madrona
on 27 Jun 2019
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Just a quick heads up, after a lot of fighting with the APIs, it looks like this is doable, although quite convoluted. So tentatively put for next big release, 1.5.0.