Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Feb 10 12:55:07 UTC 2009


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.)


I have a KVM, and I do not have that problem.


> 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?

A better KVM? I think mine correctly reports what's attached.


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John

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