On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:19:25PM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > Chris, > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:19:50AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > Anything is possible... Considering that the two halves are different > > sizes to the eDP, you can either scale the DP or scale the panel. You > > can try something like > > well, if anything is possible, can I keep virtual size 4k while display is > turned off? > > What I do is: > xrandr --output eDP1 --panning 3840x2160 > xrandr --output DP1-9 --preferred --pos 0x0 --crtc 1 --output DP1-8 > --preferred --pos 1920x0 --crtc 2 > xrandr --output eDP1 --off > > if I do not turn eDP1 off, things work pretty well. However, as soon as I turn > eDP1 off, window manager thinks I have two separate screens 1920x2160, e.g., > xfce panel shrinks to a half of size. > > I do all this to switch desktop to external diplay while in office. So I would > like to have eDP1 turned off and use only the external display while being > able to switch them on the fly using xrandr. iirc xrandr automatically chooses a fb size for your based on the remaining outputs. If you add --fb 3840x2160 to each of your invocations, it shouldn't touch the screen size. Hopefully. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
