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Bug 598898 - Display Settings Panel Icon should have Detect Monitors entry
Display Settings Panel Icon should have Detect Monitors entry
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: xrandr
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks: randr-tracker
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-19 07:45 UTC by j^
Modified: 2010-10-13 18:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch to add Detect Monitors entry (1.42 KB, patch)
2009-10-19 07:45 UTC, j^ 		none Details | Review
patch to add Detect Monitors entry (1.42 KB, patch)
2010-06-08 16:14 UTC, j^ 		none Details | Review

Description j^ 2009-10-19 07:45:42 UTC 
Created attachment 145767 [details] [review]
patch to add Detect Monitors entry

Right now in order to activate my external monitor or projector I have to
click on the Display Settings panel icon and select "Configure Display
Settings...". After that i have to close the Display Settings window that just
opened.
Instead there should be a "Detect Monitors" entry above "Configure Display
Settings...". It would be like the "Detect Monitors" button in the Display
Settings.

This way one can just enable monitors that have been used before by select that
one option and be done with it.

Attached a patch to add the entry with this functionality.
Comment 1 Gabriel Burt 2010-04-15 02:07:32 UTC 
This sounds like a good idea to me - especially if the detection actually restored the user's config - I filed bug #615804 about that issue.

Patch looks reasonable to me.  There is a tiny indentation issue here though:

+            error_message (manager, _("Could not detect monitors"), error, NULL);
+           g_error_free (error);
Comment 2 j^ 2010-06-08 16:14:13 UTC 
Created attachment 163078 [details] [review]
patch to add Detect Monitors entry 

fix indentation
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2010-10-13 18:12:03 UTC 
The status icon for display management is gone for GNOME 3. See bug 631995 for details.