Multiple monitors with different refresh rates in F36 Xfce Xorg

Ask Fedora
, , ,
1

I would like to use two monitors with different native refresh rates (60Hz and 165Hz). I use Fedora 36 with Xfce. It seems that to have a good experience there are two paths:

  1. Wayland does this natively / automagically - but Xfce doesn’t support Wayland yet, and has no target date at this time :frowning:
  2. Upgrade to Xorg 1.21.1 which adds “AsyncFlipSecondaries” feature, that allows syncing to work well across multiple different monitors.

Fedora seems to still use X.Org X Server 1.20.14

Is it possible to upgrade to 1.21? Or perhaps I should file a feature request to the bug tracker and hope it at least gets targeted to F37? Or perhaps I missed another approach. Thanks for any information!

2

It doesn’t look like there are any 1.21 builds at the moment. You can watch koji to see when there might be test builds for it on the way: xorg-x11-server | Package Info | koji

1 Like
3

I have not tried xfce, but I use gnome with one monitor at 144 and one at 60 with no issues whatsoever. Nvidia GPU with the nvidia drivers.

1 Like
4

If you use Gnome, I think Wayland is the default. But this doesn’t work for Xfce I believe.

1 Like
5

Yes, wayland is the default for gnome, but I have had no luck with multiple monitors with wayland and they work well with gnome and xorg. In fact the last time I tested the external monitor for my laptop would not work at all with wayland but does with xorg.

1 Like
6

Interesting. I have several multi monitor setups that work perfectly for me with Wayland.