macOS HiDPI 1920x1200 on MBP13"

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For anyone who likes a lot of screen real-estate when programming, I recently discovered RDM (https://github.com/avibrazil/RDM), which when combined with a little magic can enable a higher (HiDPI) resolution of 1920x1200 on your Retina MBP 13".

• The 'magic' required is archived on Reddit here : https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2ia242/enabling_1920_x_1200_hidpi_resolution_on_the_13/
• But in an idle moment I wrote a BASH script to automate the steps to enable the required mode : https://github.com/tomtastic/scripts/blob/master/mbp13_enable_1920x1200

May you find it vaguely useful!

 

[inkhorn]

After updating to 10.14.5, you need to reapply this tweak, and I simplified the process to just six steps.

1. Boot into Recovery Mode
2. Open Terminal, run 'csrutil disable && reboot'
3. Boot into Recovery Mode (again)
4. Open Disk Utility, mount the internal disk, quit Disk Utility
5. Open Terminal, find the scripts location (eg. /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/blah/Downloads/), run script.
6. Run 'csrutil enable && reboot'