On 2016-03-23, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-03-23, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Most users in this day and age would probably reply "why do I need to >> start with different resolutions and colour depth?" > > When using different display hardware: LCD projector, TV, etc. > >> It's been many years since I myself fiddled with any of that, all my >> displays are now LCD where only one resolution makes any sense - native > > If you've got multiple displays, "native" isn't really enough info. > Do you want to mirror a single screen, do you want multiple screens, > do you want a single screen spread across multiple displays, and so on...
Though I guess these days xrandr can usually handle most of these issues ex post facto. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! World War III? at No thanks! gmail.com