Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/6/21 05:01, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-06-16 2:15 a.m., Stephen Morris wrote: What I'm trying to figure out how to determine is, is the issue vmware, or its it the driver which may be supplied by Fedora or vmware (I'm not entirely sure which), or is it the monitor not honouring the EDID

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-06-16 2:15 a.m., Stephen Morris wrote: What I'm trying to figure out how to determine is, is the issue vmware, or its it the driver which may be supplied by Fedora or vmware (I'm not entirely sure which), or is it the monitor not honouring the EDID requests? If the monitor is working o

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/6/21 10:25, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-06-15 4:58 p.m., Stephen Morris wrote: On 15/6/21 23:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 15/06/2021 20:36, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a side issue to this, when I was searching on the net for information on video resizing, I found an entry for a person rai

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 6/15/21 6:02 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: The question I would have is, if Fedora is standardising on Wayland, how long are they going to provide Xorg for? Well, I expect them to provide Xorg as long as Wayland is only able to work with Gnome and KDE, unless they want everybody who uses any of

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-06-15 4:58 p.m., Stephen Morris wrote: On 15/6/21 23:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 15/06/2021 20:36, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a side issue to this, when I was searching on the net for information on video resizing, I found an entry for a person raising an issue with video resizing in K

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/6/21 01:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2021-06-15 at 21:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 15/06/2021 20:36, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a side issue to this, when I was searching on the net for information on video resizing, I found an entry for a person raising an issue with video

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 15/6/21 23:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 15/06/2021 20:36, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a side issue to this, when I was searching on the net for information on video resizing, I found an entry for a person raising an issue with video resizing in KDE on Wayland in F34. One of the responses in t

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2021-06-15 at 21:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 15/06/2021 20:36, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Just as a side issue to this, when I was searching on the net for > > information on video resizing, I found an entry for a person > > raising an issue with video resizing in KDE on Wayland in F34.

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 15/06/2021 20:36, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a side issue to this, when I was searching on the net for information on video resizing, I found an entry for a person raising an issue with video resizing in KDE on Wayland in F34. One of the responses in the issue said that KDE on Wayland was no

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/6/21 00:33, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/06/2021 21:45, Stephen Morris wrote: The problem I have is Gnome scales when the windows size changes, but KDE does not, which is why I put the modelines in the conf file, and then KDE does scale. I think it is going to be "difficult" to track down th

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/06/2021 21:45, Stephen Morris wrote: The problem I have is Gnome scales when the windows size changes, but KDE does not, which is why I put the modelines in the conf file, and then KDE does scale. I think it is going to be "difficult" to track down the actual culprit.  I say that becaus

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/6/21 14:29, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-06-11 6:46 p.m., Stephen Morris wrote: Below are the modelines that I had to add into the config over and above what xrandr provided as the supported resolutions, coincidentally the supported resolutions that xrandr displayed also happened to match

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-06-12 at 11:59 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > It's High Dynamic Range, its a methodology for improving the colour > range, brightness range and detail. I think it is the video > equivalent of HDR for photography. With photography, it's generally the combination of two photos one wher

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-06-11 6:46 p.m., Stephen Morris wrote: Below are the modelines that I had to add into the config over and above what xrandr provided as the supported resolutions, coincidentally the supported resolutions that xrandr displayed also happened to match the resolutions that Wayland uses (I'v

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/6/21 21:48, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 20:08 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: I don't know whether its a design of the monitor, but under windows, windows does not provide HDR capability natively, I have to install a monitor specific driver supplied by the vendor, which unfortu

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/6/21 20:25, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/06/2021 18:08, Stephen Morris wrote: My issue with the system settings under both gnome and kde, is I am using a 4K monitor and the system settings don't offer a 4K resolution, even if the vm is running fullscreen, and also neither does xrandr specify

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 20:08 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > I don't know whether its a design of the monitor, but under windows, > windows does not provide HDR capability natively, I have to install > a monitor specific driver supplied by the vendor, which unfortunately > they don't supply for linu

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/06/2021 18:08, Stephen Morris wrote: My issue with the system settings under both gnome and kde, is I am using a 4K monitor and the system settings don't offer a 4K resolution, even if the vm is running fullscreen, and also neither does xrandr specify that a 4K resolution is available. T

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/6/21 15:04, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/06/2021 12:46, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 09:35 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: I am using a 4K monitor that has HDR capabilities which, like windows, I won't get that functionality in linux without a monitor specific driver, which doesn't

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/06/2021 12:46, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 09:35 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: I am using a 4K monitor that has HDR capabilities which, like windows, I won't get that functionality in linux without a monitor specific driver, which doesn't exist for linux. Is it really a case

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-10 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 09:35 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > I am using a 4K monitor that has HDR capabilities which, like > windows, I won't get that functionality in linux without a monitor > specific driver, which doesn't exist for linux. Is it really a case of needing a "driver," or is it just t

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/6/21 03:18, Barry wrote: On 10 Jun 2021, at 00:42, Stephen Morris wrote: On 1/6/21 19:19, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I have config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d that is listing modelines for all resolutions that xrandr indicates is supported by the vmware video driver. With that

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-10 Thread Barry
> On 10 Jun 2021, at 00:42, Stephen Morris wrote: > > On 1/6/21 19:19, Stephen Morris wrote: >> Hi, >> I have config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d that is listing modelines for >> all resolutions that xrandr indicates is supported by the vmware video >> driver. With that file existing can

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/6/21 19:19, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I have config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d that is listing modelines for all resolutions that xrandr indicates is supported by the vmware video driver. With that file existing can anyone suggest why Gnome in Xorg will scale to 4k resolution when t