GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 663102
external only display is last in monitor configuration list
Last modified: 2012-03-09 18:10:24 UTC
When I connect an external display we rightly attach it as an auxiliary display (spanning). However if I am docked and I wish to only use the external display (as my primary and only display) it is a bit too difficult. This is even worse since we fail to detect the laptop lid state on resume and try to span the monitors when the lid is closed. The Fn-F7 order seems to be: * (initally) spanning * mirroring * internal only * external only It seems to me that the case for internal only is much less common than the external only and that we should switch the order of the two.
Is that still the case with Federico patches to the XRandR plugin (the brokenness). If so, please file another bug about it. There's currenly 5 configs in the Fn+F7 list: g_ptr_array_add (array, gnome_rr_config_new_current (screen, NULL)); g_ptr_array_add (array, make_clone_setup (mgr, screen)); g_ptr_array_add (array, make_xinerama_setup (mgr, screen)); g_ptr_array_add (array, make_laptop_setup (mgr, screen)); g_ptr_array_add (array, make_other_setup (screen)); I've changed the order now. commit 8ac183bdc51db5d5708b448769f2cfd7182440f1 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Fri Mar 9 19:06:56 2012 +0100 xrandr: List external display only before internal only In the Fn+F7 cycle. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663102