Low Resolution of Dynamic Wallpaper on External Monitor

Hi!


I have a macbook air m1 with big sur 11.6.2, and when i set the dynamic wallpaper on the second monitor (DELL Full HD 24') the resolution of images are very bad... very low. BUT, if i set the wallpapers in macbook screen, the resolution is very hight, lots of details. But for the monitor 24' is very low, very poor quality. I can't find anything on internet about this. It should offer the same quality for both monitors, right?


How can i do that?

Posted on Dec 2, 2021 5:55 PM

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Dec 4, 2021 2:06 PM in response to Eric--F

Hi! It is not problem about blurry screen. both external monitor as macbook are fine. the problem is just regarding the background image (wallpaper). On macbook screen wallpaper has lots of details, high resolution.

on dell monitor 24'the image of wallpaper comes pixelated, very low resolution, blurry, ugly, no details, etc... JUST image. the texts, windows, everything keeps fine. JUST image of wallpaper is very poor.


I will tray to explain in other way:


it is like that:


when i set an image of wallpaper on macbook screen, it is like an image with 4k resolution. the same image, on dell monitor 24' is like a 800x600 resolution in big screen.


can you understand?


it happens with all the default wallpapers that comes in mac, even dynamics.


i only can see high resolution on dell 24', if i download other wallpaper on internet with 4k and set as static.


but i want to use default wallpapers of mac, dynamic ones, however they are vey bad on dell...... could i be clear?


It is not problem with monitor dell, because it is very sharp. it is only the quality of background/wallpapers.


I think it appears being problem with OS system, bug.... however, it happens both with big sur as monterey.


I found this: (same situation)


https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/m432bo/low_resolution_wallpapers_on_external_display_m1/


before the migration to apple, when i used windows, the same dell monitor always was very sharp with default windows wallpapers. but with mac it is garbage!

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