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   humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 15:38:52 JST humanetech

   #AskFedi do you know a good multi-monitor program that can handle the settings of multiple dual monitor configurations?

   For #Linux #Debian #Ubuntu #GNOME

   Right now I have 2 different dual monitor configs (home + work) and they require me to:

   - Gnome Tweaks adjust font scaling

   - #Firefox settings, adjust Default zoom factor (100% or 80%)

   - Firefox settings, adjust Default font size (14pt or 12pt)

   Every time I go from one to the other monitor setup. And then resize/move all open windows.

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     humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 17:11:53 JST humanetech

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     • az

     @az thank you. Yes, that might be an option, though I was hoping for something less involved and preferably automatically detects different laptop + external monitor combinations.

     I am working in a flex workspace with no guarantee which monitor I connect to the next day, and to manually config stuf.. well, only if there's no other way.

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     az (az@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 17:11:54 JST az

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     @humanetech if you can change the settings from the command line you'll be able to pop them all in a bash script then give them appropriate names for your location.

     Then you can pop the script in your path and just run it when you move around.

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     humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 17:40:43 JST humanetech

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     • Hans

     @hans no, it is my main laptop install.

     Old laptop dated from 2013, so it was a very long time I went to all the hoops to get a smooth system running. And now one by one I get thrown the issues to solve to hopefully get things in order soon, and do some useful work ?

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     Hans (hans@federate.hopto.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 17:41:05 JST Hans

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     @Humane Tech Now Is that a virtual machine that is running gnome? In that case you can choose to scale the interface
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     humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 17:44:38 JST humanetech

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     • az

     @az I suspect there's some nice tool to be found somewhere.

     But the search takes time. Like I just found #Gnome extension "Multiple Monitor Panels", but it doesn't describe its features, the project is outdated but an updated fork (by a random person) exists and I might install just to try it out. Only to find it does something diffferent.. maybe ?

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     az (az@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 17:44:39 JST az

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     @humanetech ah the unpredictability is a pain. Works for me because I basically have two options which I track with my dotfiles.

     Good luck!

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     humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 18:06:27 JST humanetech

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     • Hans

     @hans

     hmm, yes, thank you. I might resort to scripting the configs but was hoping to find a tool to track that automatically for me.

     I started working at a flex office and there's no guarantee what dual monitor combination I have on a regular workday.

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     Hans (hans@federate.hopto.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 18:06:44 JST Hans

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     @Humane Tech Now Ah, then maybe something with gsettings:
     
     gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2
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     humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 19:19:30 JST humanetech

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     Okay, another #AskUbuntu opportunity then.

     https://askubuntu.com/questions/1427313/manage-multiple-dual-monitor-setups