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

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Wed Oct 13 00:24:37 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:19 -0700, Adam Williamson 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...

To me, given the commit:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=67958ef6faab5797d5c5ad939db36f393706984a
it certainly doesn't look intentional.

And it shouldn't be changing the already existing monitor setup, that's
certain.



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