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Bug 790891 - MonitorManager: Report reason why a display configuration is invalid
MonitorManager: Report reason why a display configuration is invalid
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: mutter
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: mutter-maint
mutter-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-11-27 10:03 UTC by Benjamin Berg
Modified: 2021-07-05 13:51 UTC
See Also:
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Description Benjamin Berg 2017-11-27 10:03:01 UTC 
I think that it would make sense to inform the user about the reason that a display configuration is invalid (e.g. monitors overlap, monitors are not adjacent, graphics card does not support driving more than two outputs, …).

If specific failure cases are reported, then we could add specific help strings to GNOME control center. See bug #790792 (attachment 364349 [details]) for an example of how that could look like.
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 13:51:26 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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