Re: nested screen on an attached display

[chrishell <chris@chrishell.de>]

Uhhm, this is most probably not the best list for this support level. I
had several attempts last year to solve this problem on several IRC
channels, but none who could help me, so I wrote directly to the dev
list. But forget that there is a user list, not for this special topic
but for user matters as a whole.
However, sorry for this mail into the wrong list.

Best Regards Christian



> Hello out there,
> I have probably a bug to report (Debian testing). Im not sure which is
> the component which fails in my case. Its regarding my Thinkpad X60,
> which is connected with a docking station and over that with a monitor.
> I faced this issue last year already but supposed that is has something
> to do with my change from Awesome WM to i3 WM. The screen resolution on
> my TP is allright in most of the cases. But on my attached 19" display
> it's a mess. First with the display manager Lightdm, I have the
> wallpaper all over the screen (which is what I want) but within that I
> have a "nested" screen. And the login dialog is alligned within this
> nested screen. The nested screen has the resolution of my TP (11")
> On my desktop (i3) it's the same, the wallpaper all over the screen and
> a nested screen within that screen, with the size of the Thinkpad
> screen. And I can use only that nested screen for applications, whereas
> I can move the mousepointer all over the screen. I tinkered myself a
> solution with xrandr but this is not very predictable. Sometimes it
> workes sometimes not. And it drives me crazy when I plug in a SSD with a
> Xubuntu 15.10 which works fine. And as I mentioned until december 2015 I
> didn't have this problem with Testing. I do not talk about a two screen
> solution or any like that, its just if work with my docking station, I
> use an external 19" display and the notebook display is off.
> It should work, it worked all over the last years.
> I could make a bug report, but Im not sure, which is the culprit for
> this issue.
> 
> Has anybody a clue, which the problem caused?
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Best Regards Christian
> 
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