Today, again I wanted to change my screen's display size, in my Ubuntu 14.04. This time I have a dual monitor setup and I tried all the commands I mentioned in my blog post Ubuntu scaling the display (Zooming).
➜ ~ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 16384 x 16384 VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 59.9 LVDS-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1600x900 60.0 + 40.0 DP-0 connected primary 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 59.9 DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) ➜ ~ xrandr --output DP-0 --scale 1.25x1.25 ➜ ~ xrandr --output VGA-0 --scale 1.25x1.25 ➜ ~ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2880 x 1280, maximum 16384 x 16384 VGA-0 connected 1600x1280+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 59.9 LVDS-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1600x900 60.0 + 40.0 DP-0 connected primary 1600x1280+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 59.9 DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)Though it changes the display size, both the screens had overlapping images. After so much analysis, I found one inconsistency in the output of xrandr, before and after scaling. Note the first two lines.
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 16384 x 16384 VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm ... Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2880 x 1280, maximum 16384 x 16384 VGA-0 connected 1600x1280+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mmIndividual screen's resolution has scaled to 1600x1280 from 1280x1024, but the total screen size is 2880 x 1280, also the screen's position is 1280x0 instead of 1600x0. So, to get over the overlapping problem, I used the following command, after reboot, and it worked
➜ ~ xrandr --output DP-0 --scale 1.25x1.25 --pos 0x0 --output VGA-0 --scale 1.25x1.25 --pos 1600x0 ➜ ~ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3200 x 1280, maximum 16384 x 16384 VGA-0 connected 1600x1280+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 59.9 LVDS-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1600x900 60.0 + 40.0 DP-0 connected primary 1600x1280+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 59.9 DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)Now, you see that both the actual size of the screen and the starting position of the second screen is set properly.
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3200 x 1280, maximum 16384 x 16384 VGA-0 connected 1600x1280+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm ...
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