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On 2015-04-08T20:02:16+00:00 Jan B wrote:

I have a laptop and a monitor as secondary display. There’s 2 use-cases
I have for it:

1. Use the monitor as only display. When watching movies, or sometimes when 
working.
2. Use the monitor as primary display and the laptop monitor as secondary 
display.

Now this works nearly perfectly using the display manager except for one
thing. Every time I switch back from only using the monitor (laptop
display disabled) to using the laptop display as a second screen – I
need to rearrange the displays. By default they are side-by-side but I
always want the monitor above the laptop display.

Especially since the resolution and everything else (like using the
monitor as primary display when it’s plugged in) is already remembered,
it would be cool if the layout can also be remembered.

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shell/+bug/1292398/comments/75

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On 2015-04-09T14:04:51+00:00 Bugzilla-x wrote:

Usually we handle one configuration per displays combination. So if you
plug your laptop in your TV, it will have the same configuration the
next time you plug it in the TV.

But in your case, we wouldn't know whether you're modifying the current
configuration, or creating a new one.

The only thing I would guess is that mutter (which loads and saves the
configuration) doesn't remember the position of the display you turn
off, dropping it from the configuration. It should probably include it
in the ~/.config/monitors.xml file, with its previous position, even if
disabled.

That way, re-enabling it would pop it back in the same location.

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shell/+bug/1292398/comments/76

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On 2015-04-09T18:04:23+00:00 Jan B wrote:

Yep, it seems to drop the position. Because when I switch from:
Monitor primary, laptop secondary
to
Monitor secondary, laptop primary
the configuration is properly remembered. That is, the external monitor is 
always correctly above the laptop.

It’s just when switching to »Mirror« or »Off« and then back to one of
Primary/Secondary that the positioning is reset.

So basically yes, it would be good if the last used positioning could
not only be remembered when switching between the two/multiple-screen
setups, but also when there’s only a one-screen setup so that it’s
properly restored when switching back to the multiple-screen one.

Thanks!

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shell/+bug/1292398/comments/77


** Changed in: mutter
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: mutter
   Importance: Unknown => Low

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