On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:53:19 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> wrote:
> On dim., 2011-07-03 at 11:01 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Actually since 4.6 (or 4.4) the 'Display' settings applet has taken > > over > > doing the xrandr stuff. However at that point there > > was /etc/.config/xfce/monitor.xml which and a <clone> tag which > > could be <clone>no</clone> (or off, can't remember), which would > > result in the two monitors being separate (without that the > > smallest monitor is mirrored on the larger monitor, so you > > effectively have one monitor, just displayed twice). Unfortunately > > in the 4.8 the clone option was removed and I don't know how to > > tell xfce to not mirror the displays (mirroring is the default, > > unless you use xrandr to tell it not to mirror). Also, the Display > > applet settings are now applied after the /etc/.config/autostart > > stuff, so it doesn't work to do what I used to do, which is have > > and xrandr script in autostart. > > > > Basically 4.6 was doing the right thing, and it's broken now because > > there is no way to not mirror automatically (though once > > initialization > > is complete I can manually do xrandr and separate the outputs so > > they are different displays (independent) rather than mirrored (the > > default). > > Oh, you have xfce4-display-settings --minimal, which is aliased by > default to XF86Display and Super-P Oh, that appears to be for setting manually. I can already do that with xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of DisplayPort-0 I'm looking for a) at least being able to set this on boot (as I mentioned this is no longer possible, because the display settings get modified by xfce-display-settings or somesuch after the startup stuff in ~/.config/autostart b) eventually to have xfce4-display-settings correctly handle two non-mirrored monitors at the same time. --minimal only lets you turn on or off one display at a time, or clone, not to have two different displays at the same time (the X kind with xrandr where dual head is the same desktop just two different viewports/outputs). Same problem with the non-minimal version. Regards, Daniel -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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