I am having some issues using an external monitor alongside my high-dpi laptop monitor. I have scaled my laptop monitor to 200%, but the external monitor is at 100%. Fedora 39, Gnome wayland.
When I setup the external monitor to work as the primary monitor, opening new windows causes strange behaviour. The new window is often placed between the two monitors. This also causes issues because it causes the window to be “incorrectly” scaled in one of the monitors. I might be able to take a picture of this and show it to the community,
Have you tried instead of scale the screen just to increase the font size ?
If a windows pops up in between two monitors it looks like you share the Monitor space of both displays. Then it looks like a big screen.
Check with the gnome-tweaks, under “Windows”, if the option “Center new Windows” is active. This could cause the window pop up half ways on both monitors.
I have done both things. I am scaled at 200% and my text is set to 1.20 factor. This laptop comes with a 4K monitor on a 15" screen. Ideal scaling factor would be 250%, but that is not available.
If a windows pops up in between two monitors it looks like you share the Monitor space of both displays. Then it looks like a big screen.
I don’t know exactly what you mean by “share the monitor space”, is there any way you know I could “not share” the monitor space?
Check with the gnome-tweaks, under “Windows”, if the option “Center new Windows” is active. This could cause the window pop up half ways on both monitors.
I have tried this. Activating that option or deactivating has not effect. It is currently not active. Does one need to log out for this this option to take effect?
When you have one big screen … you can move with the mouse from left to right passing from one Monitor to the other.
With the Mate desktop I could say that I want to display on both screens the same. But this is more when you want to share a computer in a office and you need access to it from different positions/desks.
