Den Frie Vilje presents

docksteady

Steady. Beyond belief.

Two identical monitors. One shared serial.
macOS guesses. We don't.

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It just works.*   *Now including which side.

The problem

Two displays. One identity.
That's not minimalism. That's a coin flip.

Every same-model panel ships the same placeholder serial in its identity record. macOS reads it, shrugs, and re-deals your desk on every reconnect. You're not arranging it wrong. It's not you. It's your EDID.

The demo

Your desk, most mornings.

Erratic on its own. Steady the moment you look at it properly.
That's the product. That's the whole product.

The breakthrough

Introducing the Serial Engine.

Deep in IOKit, every panel still whispers its true factory serial. The one on the sticker. The one macOS heroically ignores. docksteady chains it through the display pipe to the window server: a firm link between glass and identity. We call it grounding. Because it grounds things.

Features. So many features.

Our most complete docksteady ever.

Steady Modes

Lid open. Clamshell. Each arrangement remembered. Seamlessly? No. Separately. Which is better.

Dynamic Poll

Checks every 45 seconds. All day. Every day. It never sleeps, except when your Mac does. It's a while loop. A pro while loop.

Geometry Replay

Your exact arrangement, replayed to the pixel. Any offset. Any seam. Industry-leading sameness.

Swap Windows. Boom.

When macOS trades your windows, one click sweeps them home. Full screen included. Split View comes back as two Spaces. That's growth.

Privacy. Obviously.

No network. No telemetry. No account. It doesn't even want to know your name. It wants to know your serial. The monitor's.

It Stands Down

Arranging displays yourself? docksteady waits, respectfully. A good butler, with a launchd contract.

The numbers

2identical panels
1source of truth
45sdynamic poll
36review findings, all fixed
0telemetry, dollars, guessing

Honesty. A courageous feature.

Windows travel with the display.
Nobody can change that.
Not even the people who caused it.

That's the architecture. docksteady re-pins your arrangement within seconds, then hands you one command for the windows. We could call it magic. It's a swap. A really good swap.

Available today

Not on a truck. On brew.

brew install den-frie-vilje/tap/docksteady brew install jakehilborn/jakehilborn/displayplacer brew services start sleepwatcher docksteady init

The price? We removed it. Courage.

One more thing

It's one Python file.
You can read it. All of it.

Radical transparency. Or, as we call it: a file.

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