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You can see for yourself by disconnecting your monitor in a multi monitor setup or opening your laptop lid if you use the laptop on a dock. Computer windowing s
by aetch 6y ago
You can see for yourself by disconnecting your monitor in a multi monitor setup or opening your laptop lid if you use the laptop on a dock. Computer windowing systems seem to take a moment to reposition all the windows and might not remember to redistribute your windows when the monitor count changes.
- formerly_proven 6y agoFor many years I was happy with my multi-monitor setups. I'd use multiple screens for work, and turn all off except the center one for watching movies or playing games (because the backlight bleeding of the other screens was annoying, even with a 100 % black image). That's not possible any more. Microsoft, VESA, nVidia say no. This mustn't be possible. (Actually it used to be possible to add a registry key in Windows 7 that disabled all of this bullshit, but Microsoft wisely decided in Windows 10 to remove that. It must not be done.) Turning compliant DisplayPort devices off while using a compliant operating system must always garble all windows and shuffle desktop icons around. The spec says so. So it must be. The will of the ancients. (nVidia will allow you to turn this off, if you are using a Quadro card - then you can use EDID emulation even on display-ports, which causes the OS to think the display is always connected - and more importantly - turned on. One of these areas where Linux is ahead -- although Linux is back to garbling windows like the rest in case you do actually decide, as an individual with agency, not a compliant operating system, to change the arrangement of displays.)