On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 18:02 +0000, Will Woods wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 10:34 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > If someone can come up with a scenario where you really need zap, and > > not just vt switch and/or logout dialog, I'm eager to hear it. If you > > can come up with one that isn't "some broken application took a server > > grab and won't give it back", I'll even be interested. > > The only thing I use Zap for is making the X server restart and pick the > right resolution when I've attached a monitor *after* GDM starts. (This > happens all the time if you've got a KVM switch.) > > Is there a cleaner way to force EDID probing etc. to happen again? Maybe > we can get a simplified xrandr applet for the GDM screen, or some > automatic "switch to new best resolution" when a monitor is attached? If you have ACPI video keys on your laptop, whacking them should trigger output rescan, I believe. In the glorious future, we'll notice output switch automatically because the hardware will tell us, at least for digital displays. This is really close to working last I checked. After that it's a small matter of making gdm notice the plug event and auto-resize, which I'm almost certain is code that doesn't exist yet. - ajax
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