Broken Multi-Monitor support for xfce

Simon Steinbeiss simon at xfce.org
Sat May 4 15:30:00 CEST 2019


Hi,

I have addressed this problem already.
Continue reading here:
https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2018/10/02/new-xfce4-settings-release/

Cheers
Simon

Francesco Pasa <francescopasa at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 4. Mai 2019, 15:09:

> Hi,
>
> I currently switched to xubuntu 18.04 as my working environment (I am a
> developer). I find some thinks much better than under windows (general
> swiftness of the system) and some missing or rather bad.
>
> One issue which bugs me a lot if the multi-monitor support of xfce4. I
> have a laptop with a docking station and two external display and every
> time I move the laptop I have problems with the displays:
>
>    1.  If I am lucky I just have to fire up the display settings and
>    reconfigure the whole thing (including alignment).
>    2. Sometimes it even does not work anymore until I restart the
>    computer.
>
> I know that I can fix this with xrandr and/or some bash script. However, I
> find that at least the display reconfiguration should work out-of-the box.
> I can find other post of people online having the same problem.
>
> I would really like to have a look at the xfce4 code that manages this
> part of the desktop and see if I would be able to fix the problem or
> improve the situation. However, I am a bit lost and would need somebody to
> point me to the relevant place.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Francesco
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