FFE request: The following patches will make the process extremely easy for users so that: 1) the user tries to enable an external monitor (a la xinerama) 2) if screen-resolution-extra is installed: she is asked the permission to change the virtual resolution and then she's told to log out and log back in. Otherwise if screen-resolution-extra is not installed: she is asked to change the virtual resolution manually to what the gtk dialog suggests and to log out and log back in. Either way her settings are saved in ~/.config/monitos.xml.desired 3) On next login, if everything's ok (i.e. the connected outputs are the same and the framebuffer is enough), the gnome-settings-daemon will load the settings from ~/.config/monitos.xml.desired and the user will have her multiple screens layout automatically applied without problems.
This will require: 1 patch for gnome-desktop (which is used by gnome-settings-daemon) 1 patch for gnome-control-center (which uses gnome-desktop and screen-resolution-extra, the latter being only an option, not a dependency) an update of screen-resolution-extra so that it only applies the settings without duplicating the calculation of the required framebuffer (now done in gnome-desktop) See the debdiffs attached below. ** Attachment added: "gnome-control-center_2.24.0-0ubuntu2.debdiff" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17923325/gnome-control-center_2.24.0-0ubuntu2.debdiff -- Useful dual-head configuration requires manual editing of xorg.conf to set Virtual https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220563 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
