BSPWM, laptop has 1920x1080 resolution, external screen has 1680x1050.
xrandr --output DP-1 1680x1050 cuts image, if I change resolution to 1920x1080, I get “full” image, but quality is just bad.
I have another machine with XFCE, it’s display utility does the trick and I wonder can I achieve smth similar on BSPWM with some simple console command?
I use i3-wm and just set my laptop display and external monitor to their native modes manually with xrandr. Been doing it this way for years without an issue. The only time I’ve seen the output get chopped like you mention is with mirroring, where you have to use the lowest common mode - but I don’t mirror, I set each display independently as a separate output for i3 (but on the same X DISPLAY).
I also don’t use a login manager, I login to a VTY and startx, old school but simple and reliable.
I also don’t mirror, just switch from laptop to external and vice versa. Strange because lighdtm doesn’t break anything for XFCE, quite interesting what is the reason
maybe I’m just one of very few that have external resolution lower than host
maybe I’m just one of very few that have external resolution lower than host
You aren’t.
How do you have your displays set up? Your xrandr command didn’t seem complete. You say you aren’t mirroring; are you then using both the laptop and external monitor at the same time? If so, I’d expect a command more like:
xrandr \ --output eDP1 --auto \ --output DP-1 --auto --right-of eDP1or if it’s really not auto-detecting⋮
xrandr \ --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1080 \ --output DP-1 --mode 1680x1050 --right-of eDP1Can you post your full
xrandrcommand? Also,arandrandgrandrcan be a little easier to fiddle with if you’re trying to arrange things.Ah, I thought you were displaying on both outputs, not switching between them, hence my mirroring comment. I suspect XFCE, not the DM, detects the output change and takes care of it. You might need to emulate that behavior with a hook of some type that you have to setup yourself with the tiling WM, and you might have to
--offthe unused display. I’d be willing to bet you can find some sort of hook script out there that can do this, I seem to recall an autorandr program I used in the past where you could set up output profiles. I hope that helps, maybe a little bit.
determine is the XFCE system is using sddm, lightdm, gdm3, there are other login managers as well, but those 3 are the most common.
you can then setup the same login manager kn the other system.
unless they are the same and it’s just a scaling issue due to the monitor resolution.
then I guess you could try the alternative login managers, and see if any look better.
lightdm on both machines, any tips (besides installing xfce settings) how to achieve this scaling?:) strange, but I will try sddm
