On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 13:39 +0200, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: > Besides all the suggestions that have already been made, I would like to > have a better video-projector handling. Video-projectors often do not > support the high definition of the video screens. Up to FC3 (not yet > fully FC5 on this topic), special X11 modes need to be configured for > video-projectors and even then the borders of the screens often appear > truncated.... Ah, and I thought it was just my 1920x1200 screen no playing nice with projectors. > Often, we still experience modes in which the internal and > external outputs are mutually exclusive depending on the way the monitor > is connected (eg a Dell D610 connected to the VGA videoprojector before > boot time often disable the laptop screen, but works well when connected > after boot, screen swicthing keys not working....). > > Given that laptops are often used for presentations, I think it would be > nice to have some kind of improvement in this regard. I understand > pretty well that most of the difficulties already mentionned for docking > and X11 are relevant here.... but any (even small) improvement would be > great. For example, a local hack consists at choosing at X startup time > between various configurations (and some of them are videoprojector > friendly). As simple as it is this is already a real progress with > respect to presentations and docking. I'd really like better project support too. Also, it would be nice to have System > Administration > Display's support for dual monitors just work (or even work in a small way). I know a couple of people who've set up dual displays and none of them have had any luck with S > A > Display, having to hand edit the xorg.conf instead. R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
