It would be great to avoid the AandR tool, yes!
Antoine THOMAS Tél: 0663137906 2013/3/4 <lukefro...@hushmail.com> > I have found that the GNOME tool for controlling xrandr works fine in > gnome-shell, cinnamon, and icewm. In fact, when driver bugs in the > xorg-edgers versions of the open source drivers made trouble on the > activation of the second monitor, switching to icewm to change > monitors, then back, was the workaround. > > It would seem to me that this tool should work in most DE's. The Arandr > tool, by comparison, was a total bugfest when I tried it last year. > > Is there anything in XFCE preventing the use of the gnome-control-center > tool for monitors? > > On 03/04/2013 at 9:44 AM, "Len Ovens" <l...@ovenwerks.net> wrote: > > > >On Mon, March 4, 2013 12:44 am, ttoine wrote: > >> Len, > >> > >> I use a dual screen with Unity, and the setup is saved accross > >restart. At > >> loging, the mouse pointer is between the two screens. You can > >choose which > >> one is the main by moving the move to right or left screen. The > >top panel > >> is on both screens. > > > >Unfortunately it seems to be a part of unity itself. All the bugs > >are > >pointed at unity and fixed there. > >> > >> At office, I use a dual screen with a win7 laptop. They are top > >aligned > >> and > >> it is ok. Maybe could you explain why it is better when bottom > >aligned ? > > > >Top aligned is fine with two screens that are close in size. I > >guess I am > >more aware of this because I have a netbook with a (really) small > >screen. > >So if the bottom of the two screens is physically aligned but > >logically > >top aligned, when I move the mouse from one monitor to the other > >it jumps > >4 inches vertically up or down and may in fact be off the bottom > >of my > >netbook screen. It makes it hard to follow with the eye where the > >mouse > >pointer is on the screen. It is easiest to top align because there > >is only > >one calculation to make. > > > >> > >> Think that most of the dual screen setups can be done using a > >restricted > >> driver. I checked different ways, the nVidia is the more > >complete and easy > >> to use for this purpose. AMD is harder to setup. And of course, > >Intel > >> depend of the default Unity of Xfce tool, so it is the more > >limitated. > > > >unplugging a monitor and having the main screen left with no menu > >bar is > >just broken. This is what happens now. What happens in unity is > >much > >better. This is an xfce problem. I will be talking with an xfce > >dev and > >see what can be done to fix it. > > > >> Maybe the good way would be have the possibility to save > >differents > >> setups, > >> like in network manager. And then, if possible, detect wich one > >is the > >> good, or let the user choose. > > > >First we need to make default do something logical... then it is > >ok to > >worry about more than one setup :) > > > > > > > >-- > >Len Ovens > >www.OvenWerks.net > > > > > >-- > >Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > >Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel >
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