Resolution: quick cheat for full mixer view on laptops/small screens

[madmaxmiller]

Just a quick cheat to display the full mixer strip on a 1080 high display. Linux makes it easy again!

Code:

gtf 1920 1200 60

creates a modeline for 1920x1080 at 60Hz

Code:

xrandr --newmode "1920x1200_60.00"  193.16  1920 2048 2256 2592  1200 1201 1204 1242  -HSync +Vsync

makes this mode known to RandR (copy & paste the modeline gtf spits out)

Code:

xrandr --addmode eDP-1 1920x1200_60.00

adds this mode to my laptop display output (the modename is the first term in the modeline)

Code:

xrandr --output eDP-1 --primary --mode 1920x1200_60.00

finally applies that mode to the screen.

You will notice black bars on both sides - that's because of the changed geometry. It's just a proof of concept and did what I expected. If I really want to make this a permanent option I might work out the geometry, if possible.

Anyhow, the screenshot proves that Linux users don't have to live with many limits

MMM

P.S.: if you switch back to 1080p while you have Mixbus32C open, the mixer view persists, Mixbus obviously checks only on program start. You'll not see the whole strip anymore but of course can just drag your window with the pressed ALT key
   

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You will notice black bars on both sides - that's because of the changed geometry. It's just a proof of concept and did what I expected. If I really want to make this a permanent option I might work out the geometry, if possible.

The correct width is 2133, gtf creates a mode "2136x1200_60.00" from it which looks perfectly fine on my display. It now shows a virtual 2136x1200 resolution, so all screen elements are smaller and letters are slightly blurry, because the dots are not really there and therefore some interpolated rendering happens - but I can live with it for a mixing session, and as I said, it's easy to switch back at any time. The new available resolution shows also in the XFCE settings and in arandr. I'll make a script which loads the new mode at system start so I can just switch when I need it.

MMM

[sunrat]

Nice one MMM! Nvidia Settings can create custom display resolutions too IIRC, had to do it once to get 2560x1440 on a UHD screen because the graphics card didn't support UHD. I wonder if that would work for Windows? Need Nvidia card of course.