Just giggled as my last meme mentioned trouble with displays and appropriately, a large chunk of the replies were "well MY displays work just fine!" (And charmingly, many were thoughts of things to check, other distros etc. It's a very kind community, though that may also be the fediverse.)

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[–] 16 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I feel you brother, specially if you have missmatched displays, if you mention it, it's staright up your fault somehow.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    How mismatched do they have to be though?
    I have 2 monitors, 1 Benq, another MSI. 1 @ 60Hz and another @100Hz.
    When I move a window with VSync to the 100Hz monitor, it starts doing 100Hz and changes back to 60Hz when I move it back to the 60Hz monitor.
    It works fine when I 90Β° one of them.

    Though the resolution and screen dimensions (hence pixel pitch) are the same. So is it one of these that needs to be different?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    How mismatched for it to cause problems or for it to be enough for people on the internet blaming it on that? In both cases I don't know tho.

    I haven't visited the issue in a couple of years so hopefully that's not a thing anymore

    Currently my displays work fine too, different refresh rates and bit depth (but not really, dithered 6 bit or smth).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    To cause problems that is.
    If I can reproduce the problem, I might be able to think what might be causing it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I've had issues with wildly mismatched display sizes: 13" netbook docked to a 72" monitor.

    ...while I had "mirror my display" enabled...

    Even then, I've only seen any issue in a few niche proprietary apps.

    And rest assured, my life partner already makes fun of me for enabling "mirror displays" in this setup.

    It actually mostly just works though!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I see.
    I haven't tried mirrored displays (just never needed it). Perhaps I can try that out if I get a different size/res monitor.
    My 100Hz display can do 60Hz, so I am expecting it to just drop to that when I mirror them with this setup.

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