Re:Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing
by digi_owl on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:25AM
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Sadly Gnome is a confounding variable in all this.
They have decided that they will only do whole number scaling, and Unity (up to 7, Unity 8, now a community project, was to be based on Qt) is based on GTK/Gnome.
Frankly the Linux DE have been crapifying every size the DEs (Gnome in particular) figured they knew better how to do the underlying stuff than X11.
Re:Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing
by afghanPower on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:41AM
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man xrandr
Re:Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing
by vosper on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:02AM
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To expand on this, you can easily do something like:
xranrdr -d :0 --output VGA-2 --right-of VGA-1
xranrdr -d :0 --output VGA-3 --right-of VGA-2
That would line up your three monitors in a row. I've been using it to automate testing of a multi-window Electron app and it works very well. You can do grids, columns, a cross - whatever...
However if you want three monitors lined up side by side, this seems to be ridiculously hard to configure at least in Ubuntu. The monitor drag-drop interface in Ubuntu is the worst I have ever seen. We recently had three new hires and had to go through the traumatic experience of setting this up for each of them.