* Rodney Baker [05-25-17 09:05]:

On Thursday, 25 May 2017 6:57:37 ACST Richmond wrote:

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Is there a window manager or Desktop Environment which will correctly observe full screen mode on the TV-0 screen?

What happens is, I set up my TV-0 to the right of the Laptop display on the nvidia-settings control panel. Then I can move the browser window over to it to watch on the TV. But pressing full screen uses the laptop screen size instead of the TV screen size, and so is way to big.

I don't know the terminology for this, I think it is something like changing the screen focus. I was able to do it once with some kind of tiling window manager but don't remember which. I would rather not go to the trouble of installing a D.E. and then find it doesn't work.

At the moment my options seem to be carefully altering the browser windows size to match the TV, or using "clone", which makes the laptop 1024x768, which is much lower than its natural resolution.

I am using opensuse 42.2

What DE/Window Manager are you using currently?

and what is the resolution of your laptop display? fwiw, I use kde/plasma5 and can set my 55" hdmi/tv separately from my 27" desktop monitor, systemsettings5 -> display and monitor -> displays see: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~paka/20170525_091440.jpg http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~paka/20170525_091522.jpg -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Thursday, 25 May 2017 22:33:18 ACST Rodney Baker wrote:

On Thursday, 25 May 2017 6:57:37 ACST Richmond wrote:

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Is there a window manager or Desktop Environment which will correctly observe full screen mode on the TV-0 screen?

What happens is, I set up my TV-0 to the right of the Laptop display on the nvidia-settings control panel. Then I can move the browser window over to it to watch on the TV. But pressing full screen uses the laptop screen size instead of the TV screen size, and so is way to big.

I don't know the terminology for this, I think it is something like changing the screen focus. I was able to do it once with some kind of tiling window manager but don't remember which. I would rather not go to the trouble of installing a D.E. and then find it doesn't work.

At the moment my options seem to be carefully altering the browser windows size to match the TV, or using "clone", which makes the laptop 1024x768, which is much lower than its natural resolution.

I am using opensuse 42.2

What DE/Window Manager are you using currently?

Also, what drivers? Nvidia proprietary or nouveau? -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Rodney Baker writes:

On Thursday, 25 May 2017 6:57:37 ACST Richmond wrote:

...

Is there a window manager or Desktop Environment which will correctly observe full screen mode on the TV-0 screen?

What happens is, I set up my TV-0 to the right of the Laptop display on the nvidia-settings control panel. Then I can move the browser window over to it to watch on the TV. But pressing full screen uses the laptop screen size instead of the TV screen size, and so is way to big.

I don't know the terminology for this, I think it is something like changing the screen focus. I was able to do it once with some kind of tiling window manager but don't remember which. I would rather not go to the trouble of installing a D.E. and then find it doesn't work.

At the moment my options seem to be carefully altering the browser windows size to match the TV, or using "clone", which makes the laptop 1024x768, which is much lower than its natural resolution.

I am using opensuse 42.2

What DE/Window Manager are you using currently?

ctwm. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Peter Suetterlin writes:

Same here, don't have to change anything myself. Connect a FHD monitor to my 2560x1140 Laptop, and I get a new desktop there. Move a window over there and fullscreen it, and it goes to 1920x1080.

So maybe his monitor is not reporting proper EDID info?

It's not a monitor. It's an old television. I would be surprised if it is reporting anything at all. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Rodney Baker writes:

Also, what drivers? Nvidia proprietary or nouveau?

Nvidia proprietary. It is configured with a utility called nvidia-settings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

* Richmond [05-25-17 19:22]:

Here is how it looks in the settings:

https://paste.opensuse.org/69649729

I enabled the tv and set it to 1024x768, but there are other options, like 800x600. It's a widescreen TV, 16:9.

and you really believe 800x600 or 1024x768 matches 16:9 basic grade school math problem -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

* Richmond [05-26-17 08:14]:

Patrick Shanahan writes:

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* Richmond [05-25-17 19:22]:

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Here is how it looks in the settings:

https://paste.opensuse.org/69649729

I enabled the tv and set it to 1024x768, but there are other options, like 800x600. It's a widescreen TV, 16:9.

and you really believe 800x600 or 1024x768 matches 16:9

It's so overwhelmingly and blindingly obvious that I wouldn't believe that, that I cannot understand why you would ask, other than to be annoying.

then why set your tv to display 4:3, 1024x768, instead of a 16:9 resolution. ie 1366/768, 1280/720 ??? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

* Richmond [05-26-17 19:47]:

Patrick Shanahan writes:

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It's so overwhelmingly and blindingly obvious that I wouldn't believe that, that I cannot understand why you would ask, other than to be annoying.

then why set your tv to display 4:3, 1024x768, instead of a 16:9 resolution. ie 1366/768, 1280/720 ???

Now that's a much better question. Why didn't you ask it before, instead of assuming that the reason was stupidity or ignorance of basic maths?

The resolution is a drop down list. It doesn't offer any 16:9 ratios. The highest resolution it offers is 1024x768. It doesn't matter anyway because the TV can display 4:3 pictures and zoom them up to fill the screen. What's more important is that 1920x1200 is much much larger than 1024x768 and so the system fullscreening to that size means half the picture isn't visible. The system shouldn't be zooming to that size though. It should be zooming to the size that the TV-0 is set to, i.e. 1024x768.

it doesn't offer 1366x768 or 1280x720> -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org