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add support for xrandr hotplug_mode_update property / SPICE resize support
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Display Settings

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Description Martin 2019-08-28 21:10:44 CEST
Dear developers,

I use a SPICE viewer [1] to connect to a machine running XFCE 4.12 (Debian Buster). Unfortunately spice-vdagent altered its behaviour from changing screen resolution _itself_ to just informing the Window manager / Desktop Environment of the resolution change ("hotplug_mode_update"). So automatic resizing of all components in the viewer window fails. Other DE (KDE and GNOME) change  screen resolution without problems, as they somehow fixed that problem. 

Several bugs were filed in the last years [2], but the problem persists.

Could you please fix this, as I like the snappiness of xfce on poorly equipped/older machines and I do not want to switch to another DE.

Thanks & Regards
Martin

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[1] https://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-x64-8.0.msi

[2] 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=935896 (for xfce4 package)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290586#c7 (for spice-vdagent package)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858549#15 (for spice-vdagent package)
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2019-08-30 10:54:49 CEST
Yes, but xfce is different from GNOME, in xfce, xfwm4 does not drive the xrandr modes, so this would be implemented in xfsettingsd instead, moving component.
Comment 3 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 23:14:23 CEST
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Bug #15897

Reported by:
Martin
Reported on: 2019-08-28
Last modified on: 2020-05-28

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Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
2 users

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