On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:07:59 -0700 Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> said:
> 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? http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-5eecffdb3dd9d5.28939497.png > 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? it'll ignore plug and unplug if you disable hotplug. the new "ignore disconnects" will just ignore a disconnect for that screen. > > 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). or maybe just a good DP cable? as i said - i can add some config - will have to try remember that... > > 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 :) well indeed sometimes people have different or broken or odd hardware. if i can't see it it's hard to code around it - i have to rely on reports and figuring out what the real issue is and then possibly the best path. i would like then for the user to try git so i can prototype/try the feature to see if it actually fixes things before it is baked into a release. > 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/ > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
