On January 1, 2025 7:14:41 PM EST, Muhammad Ahsan <ah...@vivaldi.net> wrote: >Just my two cents. > >In the good old days, when I faced similar problems, I used to manually >set >the resolution and location of external monitor. Here is a sample >command from >one of my old scripts: > >$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1366x768 --rate 60 --right-of HDMI1 > >You can try adopting the above to your own setup and setting the >resolution >manually. > >Another possibility is to install Nvidia proprietary graphics driver >and see >if it makes any difference. > >HTH!
Yes, I have done so using xrandr. However, it does not work by just listing the resolution 1920 x 1080 for the external monitor, I have to add scale 2x2 to the xrandr command. Even so, the wallpaper background scales oddly, does not repeat in a consistent fashion on the display, and, while I can drag a window opened on the laptop display over to the external monitor and it looks ok, if I maximize it, it does not fill the entire monitor but only 1/4. If I open eg. a terminal window, it also scales to 1/4 of the surface. Clearly there is/are bug(s) but where? I surmise it's because the laptop display is UHD at 3840 x 2160 and the external monitor runs at /lower/ resolution. Most often the opposite is true. I would love to help find the bug/bugs and get this working!
