looking for help on multimonitor setup

[Carsten Haitzler]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:03:27 -0400 H <agents at meddatainc.com> said:

> On March 11, 2025 11:18:03 PM EDT, Django Reinhard <django013 at gmx.de> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >> Does anyone have experience with an external display running at a
> >lower
> >> resolution than the laptop display itself?
> >
> >Not with a laptop, but my second pc has 2 monitors connected with
> >different
> >resolution. KDE does recognize them correctly and I can position them
> >by drag
> >and drop in the screen settings. No problem so far.
> >
> >My problem was/is, that I'm looking for a desktop that spans multiple
> >monitors, which apparently does not exists for the reason of different
> >sized
> >monitors.
> 
> I understand your issue but did not know if a laptop was involved. I am
> hoping to find someone with a laptop with a UHD display and an external
> monitor running at a /lower/ resolution.
> 
> I need to be able to establish where the problem lies, with: (1) Mate; (2) X;
> or (3) the video driver...

have you run xrandr to see what modes the external screen is offering - which
is claims is native etc.?


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