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. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
