On 06/17/2017 03:02 PM, Curt wrote:
On 2017-06-17, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:I'm using Debian Testing on a Lenovo T510 Thinkpad whose screen is too small and is in the "short and wide" category. I prefer my 17" diagonal external with a nominal 4:3 aspect ratio. I am using ARandR Screen Layout Editor 0.1.9. It reports: laptop as 1366 x 768 and normal orientation vga monitor as 1280 x 1024 and normal orientation With those settings it _can_ and *FREQUENTLY* does display what I want. Generally it chooses not to :/Frequently does but generally doesn't does not compute.
I'll stand by my summary statement as being literally true. I'll rephrase it. With those settings it _can_ display what I want. [see procedure you snipped] It FREQUENTLY it does display what I want. [I had listed some.] Generally it chooses not to :/ [More than 50% of the time it does not.] This morning started off "worse" than usual.However I've a gut feeling that I've wandered into at least a partial explanation. I suspect some variable is "path dependent" rather than "state dependent". I'll have to work out a test procedure to verity.