On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:06:19AM +0100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > you could also just disable e's monitor hotplug support. hotplug support means > actively handling connects/disconnects when e knows about them. if it's > happening due to bad cabling or something... it's still happening. :) I looked for this, but didn't find a setting. Is it a compile option or a setting? And out of curiosity, for mirroring it's easy but in the case of separate screens, if you disable hotplug support, does E just ignore the next screen if you plug it in, or what happens exactly?
> aaah now this hits the problem. i actually spent a lot of time messing with > this timeout. i ended up at 1 second as a compromise. if i had it wait 3-5 Yeah, I'm not surprised. Changing it from 1 for all is not a good idea as you said. Making it a setting that can be raised a bit for those where connections can bounce a little bit, may be desirable, or not. Can't say if I'm the only one with this flaky connection. I tried the other minidp cable to a different minidp input in the monitor. It feels more stable but still stutters a bit. If I never get it working reliably, I'll probably just switch to HDMI for good (DP is supposed to be slightly faster for 4K). > i also just added a feature "ignore disconnects" for a specific screen... it's > in git master... :) so technically you could just flag a screen as a problem > child and turn this on. it does mean if you use a laptop and actually > dock/undock AND have "problem connectors" e can't handle the disconnect for > that screen until you manually remove the "ignore disconnects" for that > screen, > THEN unplug it. Oh, good to know, thank you. > in the end e is at the point where it doesn't know if its an actual disconnect > or a broken cable. if you disable hotplug then e can use a fixed setup - Correct. > the only other option is to make this 1 second a configuration value for the > user. it's not pretty but might help hide your problem a bit, but you'd need > to > go using git master to get such features if i added them even today... or you > wait for the next release... :) Yes, I do think that making this configurable can also be useful, at least for some cases, even if indeed I'm just a sample size of 1 :) Thanks again for your answers Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
