On 12/21/12 06:29, Sven Berkvens-Matthijsse wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem to find an answer to my question anywhere on the web.
Either my use case is weird, or I'm not searching correctly :-)
I have X.org server 1.11.3 running on Ubuntu. I'm using the radeon
driver with a Radeon HD6450. I have three monitors connected to the card
(all three monitors have a DVI input), and I've set up the server to
have all three monitors in one large desktop. This works brilliantly!
Sometimes, I need to connect one of the monitors to another PC or other
equipment with a HDMI or DVI output. My problem is that if I pull out
one of the cables that is connected to the HD6450, that the card (and
the X server) will detect that the monitor has been disconnected from
the card. Consequently, the desktop size is modified and all my Gnome
panels will be jumbled. If I reconnect the monitor, it comes back
online, but the positioning of the windows and panels is not restored to
what it used to be.
It's the X clients' job to effect that sort of policy. In your case,
it's probably gnome-settings-daemon. You could try killing it as an
experiment to see if the behavior goes away, or logging into a simpler
desktop environment like Fluxbox that doesn't have a monitor policy daemon.
I don't know offhand if gnome-settings-daemon has an option to turn off
automatic reconfiguration of the screens.
What I would like is to be able to tell the X server that I don't care
whether monitors are disconnected or not, and that it should keep the
desktop size fixed, no matter which monitors are connected. My X
configuration file includes a full server layout section, and also
contains the resolutions of the monitors. Therefor, it should be
possible, I guess, I just don't know how. Perhaps the current software
is not able to handle this specific situation. I can live with it if the
monitors need to be connected at the time that the X server starts. As
long as I can disconnect them later on without the server layout and
desktop size changing.
The nvidia driver has a "UseHotplugEvents" option you can use to
suppress the RandR events that clients like gnome-settings-daemon listen
for, to work around this sort of problem. Maybe the radeon driver has
something similar?
--
Aaron
I realize that most people want the behavior that the X server exhibits
currently, because in their case it will probably be an external monitor
that is connected to a laptop on occasion. So I probably want something
odd :-)
Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated. If the software is
currently not capable of what I've attempted to describe, I'd also like
to know, of course.
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