Excerpts from Aaron Plattner's message of Thu Oct 08 13:29:03 -0700 2009: > How do you propose having that happen? Having X autodetect hotplugged > screens and automatically extend the desktop to them? Does that work > today?
The kernel does hotplug detection and sends a uevent to the X server which generates suitable RandR events. The desktop receives these events and does something. The only case I'm not sure of is when gdm is sitting alone on the display. > 1. Allow X to start with no displays. Automatically light them up when > they're plugged in (from within the server -- don't rely on a client to > do that). Make damn sure that display hotplug detection is 100% > reliable, even for VGA. We should be able to rely on a client to do this; desktop environments already do, with the possible exception of gdm (which I just haven't tested). Although, one option might be to always light up the first monitor detected after the server starts. -- [email protected]
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