Re: [SLE] 10.0 external monitor at different resolution

On Sep 15, 06 14:33:43 +0200, Siegbert Baude wrote:
Yes, that is a working solution, but not using the native resolution of
your laptop, which is what I was looking for. With modern laptop
displays and resolutions of 1600x1200 and above, scaling is not a good
solution.

I don't think this is possible on Windows as well. At least I have never
seen an option for that on my machine at home (XP).
I know MacOS has OS- and application support for that (e.g. additionally
showing notes instead of the slide alone on the laptop display).

What you're asking for is application support. To the best of my
knowledge *no* application on linux has support for something like that
right now.
On MacOS this is different, of course.

Interesting, that of course would be an alternative approach. Do I

Actually, no. If you have to render your screen in two different
resolutions, you just *have* to have application support.

undertand you correct that you're talking about Xinerama, i.e.
non-cloned display content, where the application is just using two
separate windows for the presentation, one for each screen? This would

Yep.

be even better as the application could show different versions (one
with comments for the speaker, one without for the audience). A pity
this software doesn't exist yet.

As I mentionend this only works on MacOS so far AFAIK.
Of course they could lay much pressure on the application developers ;)

We're different then in this point. I want a crispy display also for the
speaker. Maybe this depends on how often you give your speech and
therefore know the contents already by heart. Next point could be the

I never ever give the same talk twice. There's always something
changing between revisions, even if it is about the same topic.

size of the room and therefore different distances to the display. Seems
you just want to recognize, which *** is displayed, whereas I would
like to be able to actually read even smaller fonts.

No, I do have to read my lines. But if I'm having a hard time reading
them, the font is clearly too small for the audience as well.

Xinerama and multidisplay setups work with all (maybe except intel under
some circumstances) drivers with different resolutions.

Yes, but they don't show cloned display content, which is what is needed
as long as the applications cannot use both displays for the

Again, cloned mode with different resolutions is by definition not
available.

presentation. So as long as this feature is missing, I would like to
have cloned displays, both in there native resolution, which means the
content has to be rendered twice, once for each display. Windows drivers

Again, only possible with application support.

for some laptop graphic chips allow this, but I don't know of a single
solution to make this happen with Linux. IMHO, this is due to the x.org
drivers not allowing this.

Never heard of that on Windows. How do you configure that? What is the
actual screen content if you start some application that has no clue of
different screens?

IMHO the scenario you describe cannot exist. So apparently I get
something wrong.

Matthias

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