Bug#455225: /usr/bin/xrandr: please consider possibility to disable hardware detection
reassign 455225 xserver-xorg-core
retitle 455225 Xserver should allow xrandr to get output info without querying the hardware again
thank you
Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:44:04AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
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>> How would that call look like?
>>
>> xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --left-of LVDS --output LVDS --auto?
>>
>
> It looks like an output can only be mentioned once, so
>
> xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --output LVDS --auto --output VGA-0 --left-of LVDS
>
> won't work. So, a little more command line processing is necessary.
>
Right, I fixed this in the upstream xrandr git. It will work in the next
release. I also clarified the manpage about the ability to manage
multiple outputs at the same time with a single command line.
As said by Michel on IRC, the original problem is in the server. It
should cache output infos and let xrandr retrieve them without querying
the hardware again. It would be much better than trying to cache things
in xrandr or so. I am reassigning the bug report accordingly.
Brice
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