Cpt Chuckles
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I've hooked up a HDMI display to my laptop, and it almost works, except that my HDMI display seems to overlap with my primary display such that it ignores my --panning option.
Both my internal eDP-1 display and my HDMI-1-0 display are 1920x1080 and i'm trying to place my HDMI display on the left.
The result is that HDMI-1-0 will always revert to panning 3840x1080+0+0 no matter what i do. This seems to result in my HDMI display overlapping with my primary display such that any full-screen windows open on HDMI display will consume both monitors, and if i open something full-screen on the eDP-1 display it will be properly constrained to the physical display.
I've tried a number of different xrandr commands, including
And in the end, eDP-1 takes its given panning parameter, but HDMI-1-0 will always show me that its panning parameter reverts to 3840x1080+0+0.
I have occasionally managed to accidentally make HDMI-1-0 a mirror of eDP-1, but that's not what I was going for. In any other case, HDMI-1-0 wants its content to overlap with my primary display instead of constraining its content. In this situation, it's impossible for me to full-screen a video or a game on HDMI-1-0 since it will split between the two displays, although it works fine on eDP-1.
Both my internal eDP-1 display and my HDMI-1-0 display are 1920x1080 and i'm trying to place my HDMI display on the left.
Code:
xrandr --fb 3840x1080 --output eDP-1 --primary --auto --panning 1920x1080+1920+0 \
--output HDMI-1-0 --mode 1920x1080 --panning 1920x1080+0+0
The result is that HDMI-1-0 will always revert to panning 3840x1080+0+0 no matter what i do. This seems to result in my HDMI display overlapping with my primary display such that any full-screen windows open on HDMI display will consume both monitors, and if i open something full-screen on the eDP-1 display it will be properly constrained to the physical display.
I've tried a number of different xrandr commands, including
Code:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --primary --auto --output HDMI-1-0 --auto --left-of eDP-1
# ...
xrandr --output HDMI-1-0 --primary --auto --panning 1920x1080+0+0 --output eDP-1 --auto --panning 1920x1080+1920+0
# ...
xrandr --output HDMI-1-0 --mode 1920x1080 --panning 1920x1080+0+0 --output eDP-1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --panning 1920x1080+1920+0
And in the end, eDP-1 takes its given panning parameter, but HDMI-1-0 will always show me that its panning parameter reverts to 3840x1080+0+0.
Code:
$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm panning 1920x1080+1920+0
1920x1080 60.00*+ 59.97 59.96 59.93
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 60.02
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 60.04 60.00
960x720 60.00
928x696 60.05
896x672 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
700x525 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 60.02
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
684x384 59.88 59.85
640x400 59.88 59.98
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
512x384 60.00
512x288 60.00 59.92
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
320x180 59.84 59.32
DP-1-0 disconnected
DP-1-1 disconnected
HDMI-1-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 521mm x 293mm panning 3840x1080+0+0
1920x1080 60.00*+ 59.94 50.00
1680x1050 59.95
1600x900 60.00
1440x900 59.89
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x800 59.81
1280x720 60.00 59.94 50.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94
1680x1050 (0x48) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew 0 clock 65.29KHz
v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089 clock 59.95Hz
1280x1024 (0x4f) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew 0 clock 63.98KHz
v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066 clock 60.02Hz
1280x800 (0x59) 83.500MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1352 end 1480 total 1680 skew 0 clock 49.70KHz
v: height 800 start 803 end 809 total 831 clock 59.81Hz
1024x768 (0x60) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.36KHz
v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.00Hz
800x600 (0x6f) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.88KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.32Hz
800x600 (0x70) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.16KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.25Hz
640x480 (0x7c) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz
v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.94Hz
I have occasionally managed to accidentally make HDMI-1-0 a mirror of eDP-1, but that's not what I was going for. In any other case, HDMI-1-0 wants its content to overlap with my primary display instead of constraining its content. In this situation, it's impossible for me to full-screen a video or a game on HDMI-1-0 since it will split between the two displays, although it works fine on eDP-1.
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