Xfce uses screen size of disconnected monitor

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Nov 2 21:17:15 CET 2007


Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> on my laptop, xrandr outputs following:
> 
> ,----
> | Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1280
> | VGA disconnected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
> |    1024x768_60    60.0* 
> | LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 331mm x 207mm
> |    1280x800       60.0*+
> |    1152x768       54.8  
> |    1024x768       60.0  
> |    800x600        60.3     56.2  
> |    640x480        59.9  
> | TV disconnected (normal left inverted right)
> `----
> 
> Xfce uses that information to maximise windows to 1024x768 instead of
> 1280x800. Is that a bug of the graphics driver or of Xfce? Is it
> possible to work around this?

I think the problem is that xfwm4 just doesn't have xrandr 1.2 support.

	-brian



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