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		nickjj 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Omarchy on CachyOS If your external display isn't connected, what happens? Does Hyprland ignore that line from the config without an error and everything works normally?

michielr 20 days ago [–]

It's ignored. This setup wouldn't suffice if my external displays used different scaling though, currently they all work fine at scale 1 for me.

  # external display
  monitor = DP-3, preferred, auto-left, 1
  # internal display
  monitor = eDP-1, preferred, auto-right, 1.333333

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