Re: Powerbook: External Monitor, network changes
Re: Powerbook: External Monitor, network changes
- Subject: Re: Powerbook: External Monitor, network changes
- From: Markian Hlynka <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:23:09 -0700
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 12:19 Canada/Mountain,
email@hidden wrote:
>
> I have a powerbook G4, and I move from the office with an external
> monitor running as secondary to home with no external monitor. If I
> start X with the external monitor, it properly uses both; however, when
> I return home, frequently, the windows appear where the second monitor
> was and are inaccessible.
>
> Does anyone know if Apple will be modifying the X server to properly
> recognize new monitor environments? Right now, the work around is kill
> and restart the server.
>
Hi all.
I've seen this behaviour, and other stranger behaviour. My main screen
is my external when it's connected. So, this one time, I guess I'd
started X on the powerbook without the monitor connected. When I later
connected it, and the main screen switched over to the external (or did
I have to do it manually that time?), X11 didn't realize that the new
screen was 1280x1024, not 1280x 854. Thus, it wouldn't let me move the
mouse below 854 when x11 was the frontmost application. This was really
frustrating, as there was an x11 window on the dock, and I couldn't get
to it! (With a different application in the foreground, though, it just
wouldn't respond). I finally had to quit X.
Haroon, I understand that there are bound to be some x11 restarts
required when powerbook users move about: a different network name
changes X11. I don't suppose that there's any way apple could provide
us with a solution that would at least work for _local apps running in
X11? I know, probably it'd be a huge pain to implement. But you
understand, I _expect my network apps to die when I sleep the
powerbook. But, It's counter intuitive when the gnuplot session I'm
running from terminal needs to be restarted too.
That said, the above resolution an multi-monitor problems, as Brian
pointed out, are not a network issue.
Here's another thought. Perhaps apple could provide an x11 menu item,
"reset x11"? Yes, this would kill all the applications, but I find
having to choose quit, confirm it, and re-launch x11 to be a rather
tedious process.
Thanks,
Markian
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