From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jan 21 15:51:05 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8BBECFDEB for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:51:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@nethead.se) Received: from ns1.nethead.se (ns1.nethead.se [5.150.237.139]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "ns1.nethead.se", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E60670C23 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:51:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@nethead.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at Nethead AB DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=nethead.se; s=NETHEADSE; t=1516549854; bh=AEC2YxHqIXc8QLN46KBSD6iu0kMHzKWnng1FkBUhbTc=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=BAC6zBZNIJU4WfRwvVI34cgMJa4Dc67cV8pzPiZxAilHnO5PjqJxexMbno5gAwg71 GLWUaivQLeR9mxu6OoYsNmX5RyGuhJ+dbxbVbFllXu6TCtDIbvwgk2du8LwtgYpJEz w6ox92I9kYUF32SjSwFNCGnFAhrQao8eEjP87hno= Subject: Re: xfce4 reverts to mirrored dislays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20180120125636.6ad88128.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180120134001.65ddb697@archlinux.localdomain> <20180120141518.7a85ed99@planb.netng.org> <2c24a50e-c7d1-0841-bee6-9f015d48a927@nethead.se> <20180120170942.532834dd.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180120190647.01b163d0@archlinux.localdomain> From: Per olof Ljungmark Message-ID: <9a1a1bfb-df06-9da2-d2d8-00a2b8283af5@nethead.se> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:50:52 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:51:05 -0000 On 01/21/18 13:57, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> I am perfectly happy with xfce in all other aspects and I do not want to >> change. In fact, I use xfce together with a lot of utilities from KDE >> and I really like the environment, it is very productive for me. I >> rather live with this anomaly than change wm. > > Me too.  I would turn off the Settings/Display "Configure new displays > when connected" option, as that might affect this. Unfortunately that it does not improve anything, rather, if turned on at least I get a dialog asking me what config I want so it's just a single click to have +1920 for the second monitor after they are powered down/up. If turned off I need either to run a script or click my way to the Settings/Display editor. I did some googling this morning and it is rather apparent that xfce do have problems configuring displays. As I wrote earlier, I applied the patch https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/commit?id=e128126f5e32c1018854403bb846cb9d6a091bb0 referenced here https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14096 to displays.c in xfce4-settings-4.12.1 but nothing changed so difficult to tell now if this is a pure xfce problem and some other file needs a fix or a ports problem. I am completely out of ideas now so I'll live with it until someone more clever figures out what is going on.