Re:Broken
by crispinb on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:54PM
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Try using Linux on a laptop with an hdpi internal monitor, and a regular old external. It's a guaranteed way to generate a daily urge to throttle yourself. (Using Gnome in my case rather than XFCE, but it's still an unparalleled shitshow)
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I used a lot of mixed screens with KDE, from 150 DPI laptops to 30 DPI tvs to my main desk setup having DPIs of 105, 125, 155, and 115 respecitvely.
GTK3 and Qt5 software works great, anything else is a pot shot.
My work laptop is in this situation and it got to the point where I just ran the eDP display in 1080p instead. Honestly on a 15 in screen where I'm only doing code and not editing photos, there's no point in running it in UHD.
I dismissed this initially out of a felt need to max out the use of my hardware. But actually it does solve some problems. I prefer native resolution + 200% scaling when using laptop (also a 15") on its own. But given the laptop screen is further away when I'm plugged in at the desk, 1080p is more than adequate. It also means I can go back to Xorg, which obviates some Wayland bugginess.
So thanks for the idea - it truly had never occurred to me (oddly).
Re:Broken
by parliament32 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:19PM
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Depends on your distro but on Debian+XFCE I use ARandR (front-end to xrandr cli tool, which is a front-end to xorg's randr). Laptop plus external monitor works great, with auto-config on connect and other stuff.