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Bug 776548 - Placing HiDPI screens is confusing
Placing HiDPI screens is confusing
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 782785
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
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Other Linux
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Assigned To: Debarshi Ray
Control-Center Maintainers
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Reported: 2016-12-28 16:25 UTC by Lionel Landwerlin
Modified: 2017-09-15 13:45 UTC
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Description Lionel Landwerlin 2016-12-28 16:25:05 UTC 
When using 2 screen and having one of them being HiDPI, it's pretty confusing to place screens around.
Let's say you have a 13" laptop screen at 3200x1800 and a 26" external monitor at 2560x1440, the display panel of the control center will show the laptop screen with a bigger thumbnail. As a result you tend to think the bigger thumbnail is your external screen (because that's what you see from the outside).
It took a while to figure that the control center wasn't misplacing the screen and that everything is actually in working order.

It would probably be a good idea to normalize the thumbnail's size using the scaling factor.
Comment 1 Benjamin Berg 2017-09-15 13:45:27 UTC 
This is working correctly in 3.26. To see it in action you need to enable the fractional scaling support though (i.e. use a wayland session and set the dconf /org/gnome/mutter/experimental-features list to include 'scale-monitor-framebuffer').

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 782785 ***