On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Matt McCutchen <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:24 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: >> This is fairly obvious, but I couldn't find anything in bugzilla, so >> I'll mention it here. I have a docking station and an LCD monitor >> connected to it. When I dock, I have two screens -- one that's >> attached to my laptop, another that is external. That part works fine. >> >> However, I run into problems when I set up sub-pixel smoothing. My >> laptop is VRGB, while my external LCD is RGB. There's currently no >> option (that I see) to set up sub-pixel smoothing tweaks per-monitor, >> while there really should be, because I either have colourful fonts on >> one screen or the other screen. The only option that I have currently >> is to not use sub-pixel smoothing. > > I think you're right. Please file a bug. Should this be an upstream Xorg bug, then? > Note that when multiple monitors are combined into an X screen with > Xinerama, it is possible (though rare) for a single character to span > multiple screens. I guess the part lying on each screen should be > rendered with the correct option for that screen. That may take some > work to implement. Having recently had a reason to touch Windows 7, I know that they do it per screen for ClearType. Not that it helps in any way, but figured I would mention this fact. :) Regards, -- McGill University IT Security Konstantin "Kay" Ryabitsev Montréal, Québec -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
