On Sep 15, 06 10:26:23 +0200, Siegbert Baude wrote:
Is there a solution in the meantime to use 2 different resolutions at the same time wiht identical content, as in the classical laptop with beamer scenario? Last time I checked I found no solution for
A good talk is given with your back to the board and your front to the audience, therefore you have to look at your laptop display. I know the
Ok, finally we have the use case. I was thinking of a completely different setup. IMHO for talks our solution is pretty ok. In fact, talks were the driving force behind our decisions. Projectors typically have 1024x768, and there's almost no laptop with less than 1024x768 on its internal display. -> Do a standard configuration with cloned external monitor, and hand-select the 1024x768 resolution for the talk. I do that all the time.
panning solution, but it is not good for giving a talk, if you have to scroll to see the complete content for your screen. So it perfectly does make sense, but you have to render the contents two times, once for each resolution, so you can't use the same framebuffer. How you should deal
What you're asking for is application support. To the best of my knowledge *no* application on linux has support for something like that right now. On MacOS this is different, of course.
with different aspect ratios of displays is however unclear. Scaling horizontally seems to be the only way to go then.
I don't give a damn, if the aspect is wrong on my laptop's display during a talk. I'm also not interested about the quality of the display of the laptop, as you're standing in front of your laptop, and cannot visualize single pixels at all due to the distance.
The problem is not sax, but code implementations. At least X.org drivers simply don't allow it yet. I don't know if some of the proprietary drivers can do it.
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