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Custom UW resolution for regular 16:9 screen? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by HERRAX@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone!

I'm using a 4k 48" TV as a monitor, and want to scale the screen down to 3440x1440 / 21:9 with black bars on the top and bottom. I've managed to do this with the AMD Adrenaline software on my Windows partition, but when I tried to create a custom resolution on my EndeavourOS partition with xrandr, the screen just goes black whenever I apply it.

Has anyone here been succesful doing this, or have any tips? Thanks!

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[–] HERRAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, I'm using Wayland. I went through the steps in this guide: https://itslinuxfoss.com/set-custom-resolution-using-xrandr/?utm_content=cmp-true

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well the method looks correct, but xrandr doesn't support full wayland, AFAIK. It's really meant for X11.

I haven't looked into this myself, but perhaps there's a newer tool that can get the job done?