Bug#488277: I have exactly the same problem
Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 20:46:01 +0200, Eric Valette wrote:
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>> So my question is is it normal to see only portion of the virtual
>> screen?
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> On the smaller monitor, yes.
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This means that for many laptop owner in medium sized companies, where
external LCD are bigger but with lower resolution the default behavior
(meaning without preferred mode settings) is barelly unacceptable and
there is no way to have a single xorg.conf file that work correctly for
docked and undocked case (I can limit the LVDS resolution by default in
xorg.conf but will then have to manually change it when undocking or use
acpi events).
As I can use xrandr to dynamically reprogram things without restarting
X, this is acceptable but is a change compared to previous behavior.
Again thanks for your time and patience.
-- eric
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