F13 Beta Anaconda Screen Selection

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 19:59 +0200, drago01 wrote:

> > I disagree. The driver cannot tell whether a connected display is
> > powered on or off
> 
> Depends on the display, most displays are only detectable when they
> are actually powered on.

That's not the case at all in my experience. Clearly in this case it's
not true, otherwise it wouldn't know the TV was there at all.

> >, and there is no method for choosing which display is
> > 'primary'
> 
> Sure there is .... xrandr provides a way to choose a primary display,
> so worst case ask the user, or in case of the install just clone the
> output.

That's not what I meant. I meant that there's no reliable heuristic for
knowing which is primary.

Ask the user? How do you pick which display to ask the user on? :)
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