New XFCE apps

[ttoine]

It would be great to avoid the AandR tool, yes!


Antoine THOMAS
Tél: 0663137906


2013/3/4 <lukefromdc at hushmail.com>

> I have found that the GNOME tool for controlling xrandr works fine in
> gnome-shell, cinnamon, and icewm. In fact, when driver bugs in the
> xorg-edgers versions of the open source drivers made trouble on the
> activation of the second monitor, switching to icewm to change
> monitors, then back, was the workaround.
>
> It would seem to me that this tool should work in most DE's. The Arandr
> tool, by comparison, was a total bugfest when I tried it last year.
>
> Is there anything in XFCE preventing the use of the gnome-control-center
> tool for monitors?
>
> On 03/04/2013 at 9:44 AM, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, March 4, 2013 12:44 am, ttoine wrote:
> >> Len,
> >>
> >> I use a dual screen with Unity, and the setup is saved accross
> >restart. At
> >> loging, the mouse pointer is between the two screens. You can
> >choose which
> >> one is the main by moving the move to right or left screen. The
> >top panel
> >> is on both screens.
> >
> >Unfortunately it seems to be a part of unity itself. All the bugs
> >are
> >pointed at unity and fixed there.
> >>
> >> At office, I use a dual screen with a win7 laptop. They are top
> >aligned
> >> and
> >> it is ok. Maybe could you explain why it is better when bottom
> >aligned ?
> >
> >Top aligned is fine with two screens that are close in size. I
> >guess I am
> >more aware of this because I have a netbook with a (really) small
> >screen.
> >So if the bottom of the two screens is physically aligned but
> >logically
> >top aligned, when I move the mouse from one monitor to the other
> >it jumps
> >4 inches vertically up or down and may in fact be off the bottom
> >of my
> >netbook screen. It makes it hard to follow with the eye where the
> >mouse
> >pointer is on the screen. It is easiest to top align because there
> >is only
> >one calculation to make.
> >
> >>
> >> Think that most of the dual screen setups can be done using a
> >restricted
> >> driver. I checked different ways, the nVidia is the more
> >complete and easy
> >> to use for this purpose. AMD is harder to setup. And of course,
> >Intel
> >> depend of the default Unity of Xfce tool, so it is the more
> >limitated.
> >
> >unplugging a monitor and having the main screen left with no menu
> >bar is
> >just broken. This is what happens now. What happens in unity is
> >much
> >better. This is an xfce problem. I will be talking with an xfce
> >dev and
> >see what can be done to fix it.
> >
> >> Maybe the good way would be have the possibility to save
> >differents
> >> setups,
> >> like in network manager. And then, if possible, detect wich one
> >is the
> >> good, or let the user choose.
> >
> >First we need to make default do something logical... then it is
> >ok to
> >worry about more than one setup  :)
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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