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Hmm. I was kicking the wheels on cinnamon the other day - but because it's not on Wayland it won't do mixed resolution displays out of the box, so it's not real

Hmm. I was kicking the wheels on cinnamon the other day - but because it's not on Wayland it won't do mixed resolution displays out of the box, so it's not really viable for me. A pity, as I dislike snaps and the generally dumbed down direction of recent Gnome, so it would otherwise have been a good fit for me. For now I'm (still) on Ubuntu though.

smackeyacky 5y ago
Perhaps have a look at Pop!OS - still not Wayland but all the good stuff of Ubuntu and none of the snaps.
- usr1106 5y ago
  No longer a question of elegance, but of practical importance anyway: Will they keep up with maintaing a Firefox package? (Or Chromium if you are so inclined?) And if they do, why could you not use the same on any Ubuntu variant after you remove snap?
  - smackeyacky 5y ago
    They use flatpak (at least I think they do) for firefox. I just use the .deb for chrome.
somat 5y ago
X11 has been able to do mixed resolution from the beginning. http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/ http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
- dcminter 5y ago
  This may be technically true, but since I don't want to spend a lot of time messing with command line tools then it might as well not be. Edit - To add a little context since that on reflection seems too dismissive... I did try a whole bunch of things a while back, include several variations on xrandr stuff. I never did get to a place where all the following were true: Both screens were operating at their maximum resolution All app windows were appropriately sized (readable fonts, correctly scaled menu bars, etc.) Neither screen was blurry due to scaling I wouldn't swear it was impossible but with recent versions of Ubuntu under Wayland I could have all three without having to do anything at the command line. I love the command line. I just don't find messing around with config to make the basic system stuff work properly edifying.
suby 5y ago
It's possible I am misunderstanding something, but you can do mixed monitor resolutions on Linux Mint Cinnamon. I usually have two monitors hooked up to my desktop, a 1440p resolution monitor and a 1080p monitor. The 1440p monitor is running at 144hz with the 1080p monitor running at 60. It is a bummer that it's not on Wayland, and seemingly they have no current plans on migrating.
superasn 5y ago
You're right I did face some issues too with this when one of the monitors was different but the solution was rather simple. Just had to add a Modeline in some file called 10-monitors.conf(1) and then it worked perfectly until I replaced the 4th monitor with the same configuration, then no such hack was required. You're right it didn't work out of the box but it was very simple thing even though I'm relatively new to linux myself (relatively speaking) (1) https://gist.github.com/r0xsh/4d1c7219ee63e4cee0c7fe1077559b28 https://gist.github.com/r0xsh/4d1c7219ee63e4cee0c7fe1077559b...
dpflug 5y ago
You may want to give ARandR a shot: https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/ https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/

smackeyacky 5y ago

Perhaps have a look at Pop!OS - still not Wayland but all the good stuff of Ubuntu and none of the snaps.

usr1106 5y ago
No longer a question of elegance, but of practical importance anyway: Will they keep up with maintaing a Firefox package? (Or Chromium if you are so inclined?) And if they do, why could you not use the same on any Ubuntu variant after you remove snap?
- smackeyacky 5y ago
  They use flatpak (at least I think they do) for firefox. I just use the .deb for chrome.

somat 5y ago

X11 has been able to do mixed resolution from the beginning. http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/ http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/

dcminter 5y ago
This may be technically true, but since I don't want to spend a lot of time messing with command line tools then it might as well not be. Edit - To add a little context since that on reflection seems too dismissive... I did try a whole bunch of things a while back, include several variations on xrandr stuff. I never did get to a place where all the following were true: Both screens were operating at their maximum resolution All app windows were appropriately sized (readable fonts, correctly scaled menu bars, etc.) Neither screen was blurry due to scaling I wouldn't swear it was impossible but with recent versions of Ubuntu under Wayland I could have all three without having to do anything at the command line. I love the command line. I just don't find messing around with config to make the basic system stuff work properly edifying.

suby 5y ago

It's possible I am misunderstanding something, but you can do mixed monitor resolutions on Linux Mint Cinnamon. I usually have two monitors hooked up to my desktop, a 1440p resolution monitor and a 1080p monitor. The 1440p monitor is running at 144hz with the 1080p monitor running at 60. It is a bummer that it's not on Wayland, and seemingly they have no current plans on migrating.

superasn 5y ago

You're right I did face some issues too with this when one of the monitors was different but the solution was rather simple. Just had to add a Modeline in some file called 10-monitors.conf(1) and then it worked perfectly until I replaced the 4th monitor with the same configuration, then no such hack was required. You're right it didn't work out of the box but it was very simple thing even though I'm relatively new to linux myself (relatively speaking) (1) https://gist.github.com/r0xsh/4d1c7219ee63e4cee0c7fe1077559b28 https://gist.github.com/r0xsh/4d1c7219ee63e4cee0c7fe1077559b...

dpflug 5y ago

You may want to give ARandR a shot: https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/ https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/