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XFCE4 Display Settings got confused with 3 Monitor Layout
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Priority:
Very Low
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Display Settings

Comments

Description gnux83 2012-10-13 00:26:19 CEST
Created attachment 4660 
My broken Display.xml

Hi,

I have a 3 Monitor Layout based on a Nvidia Card with Kepler chipset.
My Layout looks as follow:

HDMI-0 (1680x) | DVI-D (1680x) | DVI-I (1024x)

It's possible do apply these settings in nvidia-settings dialog and store it to xorg.conf. Everything works.

But from the moment on I opened the xfce4-display-settings dialog on a reboot the setting doesn't work any longer. The layout looks as following:

HDMI-0       |                 |
DVI-D (1680x)| nothing (1680x) | DVI-I (1024x)

so the HDMI-0 and DVI-D gets overlapped. Furthermore may Keyboard bindings from xfce4-keyboard-settings doesn't work anylonger. At least my panels, I have one on every Monitor showing only local windows in Window-Buttons-Applet gets confused. It is possible to re-arrange display by using xrandr, but shortcuts still don't work also panel-applets are confused.

Once I deleted the xfce4-display-settings file (display.xml) in .config/... and doing a logout/login everything worked again as a charm.

In my opinion it looks like the position values of the DVI-D Display gets not parsed rightfully, because the .xml file looks good:




regards,
 gnux
Comment 1 gnux83 2012-10-13 00:36:17 CEST
Sry, I just retested it now and it works suddenly. But I figured out what the problem was:

If you change your display settings via nvidia-settings and store it into xorg.conf do make them permanent then the xfce display-manager will not recognize it and will override it with his stored settings... In my case the were really old.

May there is a way that the display-manager will update his settings on session end, and or session start?
Because opening the display-manager and/or deleting the display.xml everytime you change your screen layout via nvidia-settings, would't be appropriate.

regards,
 gnux

Ps.: btw. I just switched from LXDE to XFCE...
I didn't like the older releases I tried long time ago, but the new release seems to be AWESOME! Keep up the good work!
Comment 2 Sean Davis editbugs 2015-01-31 14:07:28 CET
Glad this is working for you.  Good news is that with xfce4-settings 4.11.3, multi-monitor configuration is substantially easier.  Marking as FIXED.

Bug #9372

Reported by:
gnux83
Reported on: 2012-10-13
Last modified on: 2015-01-31

People

Assignee:
Jérôme Guelfucci
CC List:
4 users

Version

Version:
4.10.0

Attachments

My broken Display.xml (1.95 KB, text/xml)
2012-10-13 00:26 CEST , gnux83
no flags

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