Dell Display Manager Alternatives

Dell Display Manager is described as 'Enhances everyday productivity through comprehensive management tools giving you optimal front of screen experience, efficient display management and easy, effortless multitasking' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Dell Display Manager for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Wayland, Mac and openSUSE apps. The best Dell Display Manager alternative is Twinkle Tray, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Dell Display Manager are DDCcontrol, wdisplays, nwg-displays and luminance.

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  1. Twinkle Tray icon

    Twinkle Tray

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    Twinkle Tray enables brightness control on external displays in Windows 10 & 11. Even th Windows is capable of adjusting the backlight on most monitors, it doesn't support external monitors natively.

    28 Twinkle Tray alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Twinkle Tray is the most popular Windows alternative to Dell Display Manager.

    • Twinkle Tray is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Dell Display Manager.

    • Twinkle Tray is Free and Open SourceDell Display Manager is Free and Proprietary
    • Twinkle Tray is LightweightDell Display Manager is not according to our users
  2. DDCcontrol icon

    DDCcontrol

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    DDCcontrol is software for controlling monitor parameters such as brightness, contrast, and RGB color levels. It includes a command-line tool and a GUI tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • openSUSE
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
     

    • DDCcontrol is the most popular Linux alternative to Dell Display Manager.

    • DDCcontrol is Free and Open SourceDell Display Manager is Free and Proprietary
  4. wdisplays icon

    wdisplays

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    GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  6. luminance icon

    luminance

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    A simple GTK application to control brightness of displays including external displays supporting DDC/CI

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GTK
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  7. BrightnessControl icon

    BrightnessControl

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    The app lets you control the brightness of all your screens (both laptop and desktop) by a single click on a tray icon. Its look goes nicely with the system icons and it supports both light and dark mode.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. ddcui icon

    ddcui

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    Graphical user interface implemented using Qt for ddcutil - control monitor settings

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. arandr icon

    arandr

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    ARandR is designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR. Relative monitor positions are shown graphically and can be changed in a drag-and-drop way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. lxrandr icon

    lxrandr

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    LXRandR is the standard screen manager of LXDE. It manages screen resolution and external monitors. You can plug in another screen into LXDE or choose to use a big screen projector. Local screen and extenal screen can be used at the same time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Fedora
    • Debian
    • openSUSE
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  12. ddcutil

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    Most monitors, other than laptop displays, have a Virtual Control Panel (VCP), which implements features defined in the Montor Control Command Set (MCCS). Typically, ddcutil communicates with the monitor's VCP over an I2C bus, as per the Display Data Channel/Command...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  13. wlay

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    Graphical output management for Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  14. winddcutil

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    Windows implementation of the ddcutil Linux program for querying and changing monitor settings, such as brightness and color levels.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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