GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 347737
Allow unused monitor to go to sleep in fullscreen mode
Last modified: 2018-04-14 23:57:24 UTC
Please describe the problem: I would like to see that the right or left screen, which ever is not being used for the full screen movie, have the ability to shut off when you are whatching a moving. It may be moving to far away from the simple setup. But I doubt a small tick marker inthe settings wouldn't hurt, when your wanting to have the screen shut off. Many games do this. I think it is because the resolution changes... but none the less, I think it would be nice. Right now... I just shut the screen off. But that means my remote control and other what not are a little less useful. Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information: Feel free to contact me... even in goolge im.
I would like to say that if this was implemented it would also be nice to have the following... if no programs are running in the oposite screen then it will know to shut the other screen off. If there are no other programs running in the task bar then when a dvd or vcd is inserted it will automatically go to full screen. What do you think?
I think that it's probably a bad idea to implement something like this in Totem. I believe it would be better to implement such functionality (i.e. turning off one screen in a multi-monitor setup off if there's nothing running on it) lower down in the stack, such as in GDK. Let's see what other people think.
(In reply to comment #2) > I think that it's probably a bad idea to implement something like this in > Totem. I believe it would be better to implement such functionality (i.e. > turning off one screen in a multi-monitor setup off if there's nothing running > on it) lower down in the stack, such as in GDK. Let's see what other people > think. > I agree. It should be a simpler "lower down the stack". But... If they were to implement a thing that when a window is in full screen and no other programs are running the other would shut off. Some programs are not ment for that. For example. I like my evince in full screen and then my other things to the right screen. I think in the end it may end up back to totem's decision. Personaly I think it would be cool. But there are other things that I would want first before this one. (hint hint LIRC in the keybinding menu :P)
Well, is it a bad idea yet? :P
It's not a bad idea, but it doesn't work, because X can't turn off only one screen (see bug 361556).
Sure it does... Think of it differently... When I play one of my video games that only uses the resolution from one screen, Tremulous to be exact, it shuts the other screen totally of. In otherwords, don't tell X to "shut off" the screen, tell your resolution to only use half of it. :P Cool huh?
(In reply to comment #6) > Sure it does... > Think of it differently... > When I play one of my video games that only uses the resolution from one > screen, Tremulous to be exact, it shuts the other screen totally of. > In otherwords, don't tell X to "shut off" the screen, tell your resolution to > only use half of it. :P Cool huh? Nice game. But X doesn't allow to switch off one screen completely. So tremulous probably only displays black on it. Does your other monitor go to power save mode, or is it just black? We could set the other monitor to be black, but I'd rather it go to sleep.
yeah it turns off. I can even hear the crackle of static. :P Just change your resolution to a level that doesn't cross the other. I am using twin view. in other word's change your resolution to half. Changing the res in full screen can also solve another issue with zooming where your card can't.
I think xrandr can do this with the newer video drivers that support it. I use it on my Dell Laptop using the new 'intel' modesettting X driver supporting xrandr ver 1.2 eg: xrandr --auto --output LVDS --off # Switch to DVI xrandr --auto --output TMDS --off # Switch to LVDS It still has its issues, like it seems to turn it back on if you do things with the other screens (I have 2 LCDs attached to the docking station) but I guess that's more devel drivers. I wonder if something like this can be added as part of the GSOC07 'Brave new X world' project which would allow this to be set there. http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2007/AcceptedProposals#head-d06cec39f6e6b2028abf8b3821ad27dfd15b113f
And Adam Jackson is working out an API and some code to add this to the RandR 1.2 spec/code.
Thank's guys, I love how the gnome is listening. Should I do another feature request for the... " Changing the res in full screen can also solve another issue with zooming where your card can't. " idea?
(In reply to comment #11) > Thank's guys, I love how the gnome is listening. > Should I do another feature request for the... > " > Changing the res in full screen can also solve another issue with zooming where > your card can't. > " > idea? I have no idea what that means though. Feel free to open another bug about it.
Totem now uses the gtk_application_inhibit() helpers, which are also given a window, so they could locate the application on the screens, and switch off the one that wasn't used. Reassigning to GTK+, waiting for the rest of the stack to catch up.
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