-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2015/09/29 07:14 PM, Tim WIlliams wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got another problem after upgrading to Mageia 5/Trinity r14. > > When working for clients on-site, I will usually take my own laptop with me and plugin into an external monitor + > keyboard while there. I have a script which automatically detects and extends the desktop to the external monitor > when I log in. My task bar defaults to the external monitor when present and is shown on the laptop screen when > there is no external monitor. This has been working perfectly for years. > > However, after my latest upgrade, the taskbar no longer displays on the laptop screen if I boot up after having > previously used the external monitor, making my desktop unusable. > > The problem seems to be that the taskbar display is now "fixed" to whichever monitor it was last set to display > on, regardless of whether that monitor is actually present or not. The external monitor output isn't actually being > enabled due to a mis-detection, there is no signal output on the monitor port and the desktop has not been extended > off the visible area of the laptop screen in any way. > > The only solution I have found so far is to plug into an external monitor, enable that monitor with an extended > desktop using my script (which runs xrandr) and manually drag the taskbar back to the laptop screen. This is OK > when I have a monitor available, but if I'm out and about with no monitor available, I'm a bit stuck and have to > use XFCE instead. > > Ideally it would be nice if the prior behaviour was restored, but I'd settle for a simple script run during login > which can move the taskbar back to the laptop screen every time I login, it's not a big deal to drag back to the > external monitor after I login. > > Is there any way to achieve this? I'm thinking that either there is a command I can issue which will move the > taskbar location on demand, or alternatively I could use something (eg sed with a regex?) which re-writes the > underlying config setting before the task bar starts (where is the config setting?)! > > Thanks in anticipation, Tim Williams > Hi Tim (Williams), could you open a bug report on bugszilla? This looks like it might be a regression of some sort. I also use two monitors occasionally and never noticed this problem, but I haven't tried in the last 12 months or so. Cheers Michele -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWCoZ+AAoJECp1t8qK3tXPyxsP/2UZ1xBoe7o1SkJ+Tzh4u1cR FFxI+HZG8IEYlSEg0qe48hpyy6wECCUDmtBUm7T39b/o15TXpuJv0QZA/VXtOR8F xoSDO5typ9WxQiy7ZcptvVZnyKRdxe1CY17Zysde5NNS5RNW3DFLvO+7VI3wx0KR XCuTFi990LpA/m+kAFT0/4Q2UidZF2DfA7XnjlxnrYgmRJ1m+/MUkTRP6Ip/Der8 HFjsIitxUqRGaS0+KS4LOEY6kNvMh/4hlR8n2mGRgvKKKd+h4/DuERN2G3YwguMF UJUiYbK+Tp29DdGABNQl+Ge8uCK0bGSBbftwG+HxpkH0G0PJacOkP9iuis5iCy3h 6t6IaeiXODE+/SsKIiTLqjkvot3o1azOXUpoRKJSPLvK6O6+zl6+QYHZCDdYH1GE PEdNV8xY/RqL5sQ78ym1Ctjr6kVLkrzLPTYa9BEgphBe46QmHrn8p4e8mp7DDSK+ kSGo2PB5c8bmqJJSI67d5NY/jomakQCUDbQG0NNzzaZs258ndbP2deh0sOmDFpTp /FmURmo8scsmMHMVH3A5xGnVZKgjHm7jZjzN1QmJFRD+lOGeequTsQlsKCme+NlZ ZsVX6I8gxDKRGokkgmir8+Oc76buJ843CpwLN89BJIFHu0lsZ980TGMiQgu+/r8O PkUhTN8SiRmP4cMbA0DR =6gug -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----