Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Feb 9 19:05:28 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 18:02 +0000, Will Woods wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 10:34 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
> > If someone can come up with a scenario where you really need zap, and
> > not just vt switch and/or logout dialog, I'm eager to hear it.  If you
> > can come up with one that isn't "some broken application took a server
> > grab and won't give it back", I'll even be interested.
> 
> The only thing I use Zap for is making the X server restart and pick the
> right resolution when I've attached a monitor *after* GDM starts. (This
> happens all the time if you've got a KVM switch.)
> 
> Is there a cleaner way to force EDID probing etc. to happen again? Maybe
> we can get a simplified xrandr applet for the GDM screen, or some
> automatic "switch to new best resolution" when a monitor is attached?

If you have ACPI video keys on your laptop, whacking them should trigger
output rescan, I believe.

In the glorious future, we'll notice output switch automatically because
the hardware will tell us, at least for digital displays.  This is
really close to working last I checked.  After that it's a small matter
of making gdm notice the plug event and auto-resize, which I'm almost
certain is code that doesn't exist yet.

- ajax
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