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    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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    [–] Fierro@piefed.social 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

    [–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (1 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?

    [–] Fierro@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 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.

    [–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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

    [–] Fierro@piefed.social 1 points 20 minutes ago

    Mine are old and can't think of a concrete one, ask op, theirs are more recent

    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 50 minutes ago

    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!

    [–] JTheFox@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    I’ve never heard of that being an issue before, people get upset over that? My displays are different too with 2 1080p and a 2k

    [–] Fierro@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    I've seen people being shat on for crazy things, my personal favorite is when the only solution given to a problem is buy something better