What we've talked about doing in libxrandr-utils for situations that have differing aspect ratios would be to place black bars on one display so they can have similar effective resolutions. I think your concept fits with that idea generally.
Moving this to the server for now since we don't have a package yet for libxrandr-utils. ** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) => xorg-server (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Summary changed: - [GM45] [GT2+] Bad resolution choice for mirror mode with two 16:10 displays (ditto for 16:9) + For mirroring, try to run one output at its native display, then scale the other ** Tags added: precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437173 Title: For mirroring, try to run one output at its native display, then scale the other To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/437173/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp