I'm using ntel's driver too, so blaming it could be a safe guess :)

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 30/05/2015 alle 02:55:
> On Fri, 29 May 2015 12:48:17 -0700 Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> said:
> 
>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:42:29AM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 May 2015 22:15:18 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]>
>>> said:
>>>
>>>> Marc MERLIN ha scritto il 28/05/2015 alle 22:00:
>>>>
>>>>> Actually, just to be clear: I have 3 virtual screens, and I just got the
>>>>> bug again. All my windows of all 3 virtual screens got centered in their
>>>>> respective virtual screen.
>>>>> Does this match the problem you're describing?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any workaround? This is starting to be problematic for me :-/
>>>>
>>>> There is one in current git as Raster said.
>>>> I had a similar problem but in my case windows were changed in size
>>>> instead of being centered, always after a resume from suspend.
>>>>
>>>> In current git there is now two new options in screen setup dialog,
>>>> "monitor hotplug" and "lid events"; unchecking the latter did the trick
>>>> for me ;)
>>>
>>> yup - so i am listening to feedback on the new randr code and as people
>>> point out issues am fixing them (in some cases the only sane fix is either
>>> to totally drop a feature - eg auto reconfig of screens on plug/unplug or
>>> like the above - add an option if you happen to suffer from it, as drivers
>>> all behave differently - for example nvidia doesn't go indicate monitors
>>> are disconnected just because they are dpms turned off, but it would seem
>>> intel does (which imho is a bit broken on the part of intel)).
>>
>> So I found out some more. It's worse than I thought.
>>
>> When this happens, I resume from sleep, xscreensaver is running and the
>> screen is locked, but I don't see the unlock window.
>> Instead I see all my X windows in the cneterg of their virtual screen,
>> and my mouse is bound by the corners of the invisible xscreensaver
>> password window.
>>
>> Given that, it sounds like this new intel xorg driver is causing
>> problems not just to E, but also to xscreensaver and that upgrading E
>> will not fix the remaining problems like xscreensaver being confused and
>> not doing its job of hiding my locked windows underneath.
>> Correct?
> 
> i don't know - i dont use xscreensaver. i let e's own locker do it's thing. :)
> i have no idea what xscreensaver may or may not be doing. :( but if what is
> happening is what i think is (that the intel drivers are literally reporting
> screen unplug events when dpms kicks in), then this explains a lot. imho it's
> pretty broken to report screen unplugs unless a screen was actually unplugged.
> but that is a guess. the new randr code in e has a workaround for this that at
> least stops you from having ZERO screens - and as massimo said - options to
> ignore the monitor hotplug events if your drivers do this.
> 
> so to some extent, your solution atm is to move to a newer e (git master), or
> downgrade your intel drivers back to where they used to work.xscreensaver -
> dunno.
> 


-- 
Massimo Maiurana
Ragusa (RG)

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