URGENT F14: Un-announced change to default dual-head config: intentional or accidental?

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey, folks. Just wanted to flag up this bug before we hit the change
> deadline:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623824
>
> it seems that the default policy for multiple monitors in current F14 is
> not to use them at all (see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623824#c15 ). On the face of
> it, this seems like an unintentional change from previous policy. Is
> this actually the case? If so, can someone submit a fix, quick? :) If
> it's an intentional change, it should be announced/documented for the
> release...

Now that you mention it (and I might be hallucinating) I think I've
noticed this when in the office on my docking station when I boot up
in the morning but when I log in I get my usual (saved?) config of
spanning of both screens (I'm not sure if that is due to a historical
saved config). When I resume (even when docking from not being in the
docking station) it seems to come back to dual screen just fine. I
didn't really notice the lack of second screen for login as I'm
generally not there that long and it sort of seems eco to have only
one screen to deal with a login dialog as long as it restores the
default for the profile or defaults to using both for a new profile.

Peter

PS massive kudos to X/power and other developers for the last couple
of releases with perfect dual screen in F-13 (and even better in F-14)
and good suspend (looking great in F-14) it makes the week at work
much nicer (despite crappy BIOS ACPI tables!).