(In reply to comment #0)

> What I would expect that if the system can detect (which it can do) which
> resolution is the native resolution, it would enable clone mode and set the
> resolutions to the respective *native resolutions* instead of setting them
> both to 1024x768.

That's nonsensical.  "Clone" means identical.

We did actually try doing something like this at one point, where we'd
set all the outputs to their native resolutions, overlapping, with their
top-left corners aligned.  Turns out that's a worse solution because
desktop UI elements like panels get either placed in the middle of the
screen (if you align them to the smaller screen) or only visible on one
screen and not the other (if you align them to the larger).  And people
hated that, and rightly so, so now we pick the largest mode supported on
both.

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  Both monitors are set too low resolution when second monitor is
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