http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16740
--- Comment #8 from Alec Habig
Do you really want that? Isn't it better to be able to see the same screen content on both heads? You only see some part of the full screen of the external display on the laptop panel. So the hidden stuff would be even more unreadable as the one on the scaled screen.
When working on multiple monitors, IMHO comparable dpi is the most important factor, to enhance the illusion that you really have one big workspace. In this case, 1920x1200 scaled onto 1400x1050 simply makes the fonts unreadable. The missing space off the bottom, on the other hand, is out of sight and out of mind - one doesn't miss what never existed :)
Of course it would be possible to modify the code to not scale down when the option Option "ScaleType" "None" is set. This would restore your old behavior if the external screen has a higher resolution than the internal one.
This would be a capital workaround. I can see that my "IMHO" above is a personal preference, and would be quite happy to simply be able to configure it away. Will be able to test this come Monday (the external LCD is in the office).
I've looked at the problem again: I'm reluctant to change any behavior as the user preferences differ. I would like to concentrate on fixing the above error so that it is possible to change the resolution to the native mode using randr.
Fixing errors is always +1 Let me know how I can help. Just so long as one can set their preference in the xorg.conf and not have to script xrandr commands. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. _______________________________________________ xorg-team mailing list xorg-team@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org