Public bug reported: Yesterday I got tv-out working on my laptop running Ubuntu Gutsy. It's great to see that display hotplugging is finally supported but to turn tv-out on and off I need to enter several xrandr commands. I believe this does not comply with the "it just works" idea behind Ubuntu. So I think we need a GUI tool to make hotplugging of displays easier than Windows or MacOS.
Can we get something like a "Display manager applet", comparable to the NetworkManager and Bluetooth manager, that notifies the user whenever a new display is connected? The user can then click on the applet icon, which pop up a window which allows the user to configure the new display (turn screen on/off, set to clone mode or extended desktop) for the current session. Limiting these settings to the current session removes the need for the user to have admin privileges, whilst allowing ad-hoc display support. To me this seems desirable, especially for laptop and other portable device users which regularly want to connect their fixed office monitor to work on, a TV to play a movie or a beamer to show a presentation. The infrastructure seems to be in place already: xorg/xrandr already supports hotplugging, DBUS can relay the new (and removed) connection notification to the applet and the window i mentioned could be the same as the screens tab of the current "Screens and graphics preferences window" (http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=814&image=ubuntu_displayconfig_1), all though there would be two changes needed: * it does not seem to support tv-out (composite or s-video) as a screen yet. * opening this preference window requires admin privileges for it currently only allows changing permanent, system-wide display settings. I know it all sounds very easy and if I were a programmer I'd try to build it. Unfortunately I'm unable to do so. Could someone please help a bunch of Ubuntu users out with this feature? ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- user friendy monitor/tv-out hotplugging support: a display manager applet? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179047 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
