Request for comments: Laptop improvements

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:13:12PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
 > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:59:59PM +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote:
 > > Now, what i would like to ask of you is to give me some input on what 
 > > you think might be something where we could do better on laptops.
 > 
 > 1) Make the window manager cope with the loss/gain of an external monitor.

AIUI, the problem here is that we have no way to know that has happened.
We get no 'event' signal when things go away, and a vga cable is 'stateless'.
so there's not even a way to poll the cable to see if anything is connected.

		Dave

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