LISA conference, Fedora, and the sysadmin use case.
Chuck Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Thu Nov 14 20:17:18 UTC 2013
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 09:56:52AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> <snip>
> > - need for better multi-monitor support
>
> We already have a redesigned Settings panel for external displays in F20. We'd probably
> need to get more into specifics here (how many monitors, whether they're completely
> static, where the main monitor is, and whether the problem is usage after the desktop
> is setup, or really problems in setting up a specific layout).
The problem I have been having is that I have configured Xorg to
rotate my four montiors, but that configuration is ignored and/or
overridden by GNOME with GDM starts.
I finally figured out the fix:
1. Make sure the Xrandr plugin is enabled:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xrandr active true
2. Use the Display Settings control panel to set things up the way I want.
3. Manually copy the file ~/.config/monitors.xml to /etc/gnome-settings-daemon/xrandr/monitors.xml
Step #3 was the unexpected and un-user-friendly step. None of this
was documented that I could find.
I think I had originally disabled the xrandr plugin in older Fedoras
because turning off a monitor caused all hell to break loose--the
monitor positioning/rotation was scrambled and in some cases it
wouldn't come back correctly at all without restarting the X server
(maybe driver bugs here).
So, there are several problems here. First, all the documentation out
there that says to use /etc/X11/xorg.conf to configure your
multi-monitor setup system-wide doesn't work with Gnome 3 on Fedora 19
in my experience.
Second, there is no discoverable/documented user-friendly
way to set the system-wide/GDM monitor configuration.
Third, there may be some bad interactions with the Xrandr plugin in
the face of hardware configuration changes or simply powering off/on
monitors.
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