Scott, Re: our talk earlier. I tried out vanilla. It defaults to "to the left of, with tops aligned". Not bad at all. It does not remember where I may have moved it to though... for example if I move the new monitor to the left of (where it happens to be right now) and then pull the plug and wait for it to reconfigure itself to single and then replug, it goes back to "to the right of". There does not seem to be any way to save or change the default. Mirror is an option.
Vanilla does reconfigure itself correctly back to single. This may be because it sets up two workspaces. So mostly it is right They are using something called deja-dup-monitor. - I do not know what happens with more than two monitors :) - not being able to set default placement is a fail, but maybe there is a save option I missed. - It is not possible to leave a gap between displays they are always edge to edge. ->arandr does allow this. - I would prefer default to bottom edge aligned not top as most setups would have the bottoms physically aligned. - The launcher is duplicated on both screens (selectable) and behaves correctly too. That is it fits itself to the height of screen. -> I don't think xfce is doing that The menu bar can span the two sreens though. - I did not check, but it looks like the two screens are different workspaces. I did not try placing an application with part of the window in one screen and part in the other. -> in xfce both screens are in the same workspace, the virtual screen size is expanded to fit all screens. I do not know if the settings can change this. So some questions: - Is setting multi-monitor defaults rather than exact the better way to do things? Or should the system remember a setting for each pair of monitors and default for something new? This would allow setting up a normal monitor to beside and an unknown to mirror for example. Assuming an unknown is being used as a projector and mirror makes more sense. - Should we be looking for one virtual screen or workspace per screen? - If we choose workspaces, what happens with more than two? or if one is either side of of main? I don't think we can use the setup vanilla has, but we should try that first I think. Before we play with what we have, it would be really good to define as exactly as possible what we want. At the very least, going back to a single in the middle of a session needs to behave correctly. I expect more and more external monitors to be USB devices. laptops have lost port styles and are now down to USB, xvga and E-net. I expect xvga will be the next one to vanish. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
