On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: > Reading the manual suggests that the vga cable needs to be attached along > with the dvi cable. Does this make sense? If this is the case, I cannot use > the heavy ENU cable as its plug is too big to fit the socket with the vga > plug installed. The Acer dvi cable is thinner with smaller plugs.
The saga continues ... and is well beyond my comprehension. This morning when I logged in and started X the upper left of the root window had the default Xfce image rather than the image I selected. This overlaid image extends about 90% toward the bottom of the screen and about 80% toward the right edge. Looks like two root windows. Well, that's what I now have! When I check the xfce desktop setting dialog box I see two tabs: Monitor 1 (VGA-0) and Monitor 2 (DVI-0). Huh? Is this becasuse both cables are connected? Yep. Pressing the button on the bottom edge of the screen for video mode now seems to defalut to DVI. So I disconnected the VGA cable since the lighter DVI desktop took over the entire screen. However, this now affects how the Xfce panel works. Ever since the auto hide feature was added in version 2 or 3, I use that. When the cursor is not on the panel itself there's only a thin line at the bottom of the screen. Moving the cursor over that line brings up the panel so different virtual desktops or applications can be selected. But, while the panel hides, it won't un-hide; it ignores the cursor position. Until I get this resolved the panel stays up all the time (or I cannot change applications.) Why this would be in DVI mode and not in VGA mode makes no sense to me. This whole issue is taking too much of my time since I don't watch movies or play games on the computer. If anyone here has suggestions how to resolve this issue, please let me know. I'm no longer seeing two monitors on the Settings -> Desktop display, so I'll replace the existing DVI cable with the bigger one I bought at ENU ... Real Soon Now ... when I can take more time to futz with this. My futzing priority now is getting the panel auto hide working again. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
