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  • I am running a system76 ubuntu laptop
  • I am trying to get 2 external monitors to play nicely with this laptop
  • When booting into the machine with no external monitors all is fine/ normal in all cases
  • When booting into ubuntu gnome desktop the monitors all play fine, with the right max resolutions, etc
  • When booting in with i3, I cannot yet get it to work correctly at the correct max resolution (this is an independent question I think)
  • When I run xrandr under ubuntu gnome desktop, I get a listing of just 2 external displays labelled WAYLAND0 and WAYLAND1 (which is accurate)
  • When I run xrandr under i3, I get a long list of other display names (e-DP-1, DP-1-1, etc).

The question Given the above, why does xrandr behave differently under these 2 different environments?

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Duh. ubuntu gnome desktop is using Wayland, not X11

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland

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