Super high resolution screens don't work well with the Linux desktop. The only good solution I found is here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=159064 https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/79564/ The solution is to patch xrandr with this patch: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/79564/ and run something like: xrandr --output eDP1 --mode "3200x1800" --scale "0.5x0.5" I'd like to request a USE flag for that patch.
I'm not in the business of adding non-critical patches to packages I maintain. At the same time, I don't see a reason why the patch wasn't committed upstream. It received a review. I've pinged the author to see if it can be committed.
commit 6ac2afc0d7d8d51d4085767b901667393c11061b Author: Pablo De La Garza <pdelagarza@nvidia.com> AuthorDate: Thu Mar 23 16:05:02 2017 -0700 Commit: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com> CommitDate: Thu Jun 1 13:04:53 2017 -0700 xrandr: Add a "--filter" flag Flag can be set to "nearest" or "bilinear" Signed-off-by: Pablo De La Garza <pdelagarza@nvidia.com> [aplattner@nvidia.com: Fixed style and whitespace] Signed-off-by: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com> ... was committed and I never noticed it. Evidently you didn't either since your bug report was filed after that was upstream. I'll make a new xrandr release so it's more easily available.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=872fda601e75220ba32d40269bca018d47d6b201 commit 872fda601e75220ba32d40269bca018d47d6b201 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-08-12 18:02:07 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-08-12 18:02:56 +0000 x11-apps/xrandr: Version bump to 1.5.1 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/629556 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> x11-apps/xrandr/Manifest | 1 + x11-apps/xrandr/xrandr-1.5.1.ebuild | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
