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Re:Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected by dralley on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:33AM (#37987175)
>Linux still suffers from the same problems it did when I left, terrible multi monitor support. Right now I am running 4 Monitors, an UltraWide, 1080p Landscape, 4K Landscape, and a 1920x1200 portrait mode. This configuration of different sizes of montiors, in different orientations has always been, and continues to be a nightmare on linux.

It's horrifically terrible on Xorg. It's not bad on Wayland.

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Re:Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected by Zardoz84 on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:50AM (#37987422)
What desktop manager are you using. With KDE I felt that even, with X11, it's far superior that the mishap that it's Windows
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Re:Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected by fsflover on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:50AM (#37987425)
I don't know about four monitors, but three work fine it seems: https://social.librem.one/@francois/111254950660731005.
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Re:Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected by phpisthebest on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:07PM (#37990153)
"Works" has always been hotely constested, the problem I always ran into is the wayland and X treat have only 1 composite or what ever space, it then attempts to carve it up, so when you have odd sized and monitors that are not in a perfect square you end up with problems

for example in the image there are 2 monitors above the laptop with the laptop being a 3rd screen, assuming they are all 1080p, x/wayland sees that as 3840 x 2160, then in effect attemts to block out 540 px on either side of the lower monitor, that only works sometimes

Then the shit really hits the fan when you go to play a game, windows is always very good about going full screen only on the primary monitor. X Wayland, I have no idea how it chooses were to go,

also placing things gets really weird if you monitors are out of order, as 0x0 coordinate may not be where you think it is...

There is just 1000 little things that deep in the core of X that were carried over in Wayland that makes multimonitor support poor in Linux, and I dont think it will ever change.

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Re:Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected by dralley on Monday October 23, 2023 @04:52PM (#37991424)
That's true of X, that's not true of Wayland. In fact that is one of the fundamental limitations of Xorg that drove the development of Wayland in the first place.

I'm not sure if the issue you're having is with the compatibility layer or the desktop environment support or what, but Wayland shouldn't have that issue and your experience doesn't match mine.

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Re:Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected by brnt on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:46PM (#37989877)
> It's horrifically terrible on Xorg. It's not bad on Wayland.

You got those mixed up.

I am both joking and dead serious. Which is why the graphics ecosystem should be indicted: engineers are far too keen to conveniently exclude user stories (or be fundamentally uninterested in them) to document to 1001 corner cases they should be covering with tons of nasty code, instead of finding and optimizing for the One True Way. Nothing changed with Wayland. Xorg is dead, long live Xorg.

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