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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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283 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.256s | source
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jekwoooooe ◴[24 Jun 25 21:25 UTC] No.44371238[source]▶
It’s astounding to me that in Linux, in 2025, I can’t just simply output a custom resolution. You are probably typing a response right now with some xrandr nonsense and I PROMISE you, it won’t do it. I can’t even scale my screen within a normal resolution to make it fit within a boundary. But I can do this in windows with an nvidis gpu. Crazy
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1. lmm ◴[25 Jun 25 00:15 UTC] No.44372437[source]▶
> You are probably typing a response right now with some xrandr nonsense and I PROMISE you, it won’t do it.

Skill issue. You probably held your keyboard wrong or something. Simple xrandr commands work fine like they have for decades. (Of course if you've moved to Wayland then who knows).