Trade-offs

Posted Oct 10, 2025 6:05 UTC (Fri) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Trade-offs by mjg59
Parent article: Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43

Why would I need multiple displays to enter a password?

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Posted Oct 10, 2025 6:07 UTC (Fri) by vasi (subscriber, #83946) [Link]

I imagine if you have a system that usually has three displays attached, you don't want to unplug two of them just so the UEFI can ask you for a password.

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Posted Oct 10, 2025 6:13 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

You don't, it's just that it looks much nicer if the display you're looking at is actually in native resolution when prompting you (UEFI has no way to know which of the displays you have attached is the one you actually care about at that point)

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Posted Oct 10, 2025 6:59 UTC (Fri) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

It would be nice to, for instance, prompt on the external monitor you have plugged in, rather than the closed laptop screen. (Yes, I've seen laptops whose firmware graphics has this problem.)