Greetings, skimming the following <http://design.canonical.com/2011/12/improving-the-multi-monitor-experience- in-ubuntu/> rang a bell about how I have seen a similar problem solved differently and which I feel could be useful for Fedora. The original solution, on Solaris 2.5 era Ultra workstations, was: 1 - all monitors turned on using DPMS 2 - all monitors are numbered 1 - n and matched to screens 3 - on all screens draw a set of rectangles showing all monitors 4 - highlight which is which Using ASCII art each monitor would show something like this +------------------------+--------------------+----------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | | | 2 | | | 1 | | | | | |----------------+ | | | | |--------------------+ | | +------------------------+ on monitors 1, 2 and 3 with the number appearing white on the correct monitor and gray on others, e.g. on monitor 1 number 1 would be bright white while 2 and 3 would be gray. All rectangles also tracked the mouse with a crosshair so the user knew on which monitor the mouse could be found. The above was engineered through extensive rework of the System V scripts, since IIRC some monitors had to be driven by a card specific X server and there was an X proxy providing :0.0 on top of those. Nowadays step (1) would probably have to be more discerning because of LVDS but the general principle seems sound to me. Furthermore, instead of numbers, F-logo bitmaps could be shown, arranged as follows F F F F FF F F F F F F F F F using bright colors in the appropriate rectangle and bland colors in others. A side thought, since I'm currently studying systemd: how difficult would it be to pull a stunt like the above on a systemd driven system like Fedora ? In theory, it still supports System V scripts so I "just" have to turn off or replace everything which conflicts. Davide Bolcioni -- There is no place like /home. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
