reassign 655765 grandr thanks On lun., 2012-01-16 at 01:53 +0000, Wookey wrote: > +++ Yves-Alexis Perez [2012-01-14 10:40 +0100]: > > > How exactly do you enable/disable the external display? Because here, > > nothing happens if I only plug it, so I have to run xrandr --auto. > > Similar, when I unplug it, I need to do xrandr --auto to disable the > > external output. At that point, the bottom panel is perfectly located on > > the bottom of my laptop display. > > OK. I used grandr. > > I have LVDS1, natural resolution 1440x900 (Lenovo x200s), and VGA1 > giving many option. max of 1280x1024. > > So, yes, I agree that unplugging the external display and running > xrandr --auto gets the panel bar back at the bottom of LVDS1. > > Leaving it plugged in and doing xrandr --output VGA1 --off also > returns the panel to the bottom. > > However using grandr: > click on 'VGA1' to select it. untick 'off', select max resolution of > 1280x1024 and click 'apply', and external display is enabled, panel > moves to bottom of it. > Now tick 'Off' and 'apply' and external display is turned off, but > panel remains at '-1024' and thus not visible on LVDS1 > > quitting grandr and running "xrandr --output VGA1 --off" at this point > prings the panel back to '-900' and visibility. > So I guess I have a workaround now, and perhaps this is a bug in > grandr, rather than xfce4-panel? > > It seems that turning 'VGA1' 'off' in grandr is not the same as > running xrandr --output VGA1 --off.
Yup, reassigning then > > > > It would be good if the panel noticed these changes in both directions > > > and calulated its best position whever a screen is added or removed, > > > in order to keep itself visible on screens that are currently in use. > > > > Afaict it's already the case. > > It is using xrandr, but not grandr. > > Do you find the same as me? > > I see that grandr has now been removed from unstable and testing as > 'better alternatives are available'. > > Looking at what these might be for xfce I find that the 'display' > settings app has equivalent functionality for turning on/off displays, > and turning the external display on/off with that does indeed have the > panel moving as desired. > > So it seems this bug boils down to 'user still using outdated and now > buggy display control app'. > > However 'display' does not have the grandr functionality for putting > screens side-by-side rather than simply cloning. Do you know what tool > one is expected to use for this these days? Without a replacement for > this grandr still has utility. > Yeah, in 4.8 you can't really do this from the settings (I'm not sure but I think in 4.10 you will). I usually only use xrandr, but I think arandr and lxrandr do the job pretty fine so it'd be worth trying them. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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