Going from two screens to one?

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Fri Oct 3 18:04:56 CEST 2008


On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:22:07PM +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> I have a problem... I am now using my laptop without the extra screen
> but the configuration for xfce still thinks I am using two screens...
> So when i try to add a system tray to my panel, I get an error telling
> me that one system tray is already running... But I don't have any
> systrays running on this screen...  The problem is that the screen
> that xfce is displaying is the screen I am not using anymore... And
> not the primary that used to be the laptop...  Is there a way to fix
> this?

Make sure to xrandr --auto so X is aware of the change and brings back
the windows.

Desktop and pager still will be messed up until you restart them
(xfdesktop4 and xfce4-panel, maybe xfwm4)

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis



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