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.)
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 90° 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?
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 (but not really, dithered 6 bit or smth).
To cause problems that is.
If I can reproduce the problem, I might be able to think what might be causing it.
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!