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just upgrade to Fedora 21 as soon as 20 is EOL or use ArchLinux, thats what I did after I had enough from too many things that didn't worked out of the box in F

by merb 11y ago

just upgrade to Fedora 21 as soon as 20 is EOL or use ArchLinux, thats what I did after I had enough from too many things that didn't worked out of the box in Fedora (like propriatary WLAN drivers, my current wlan stick is still really old stable, but it isn't inside the Fedora Kernel, however its already inside the arch linux kernel). Also I would still be happy if ANY linux distribution could fix monitor plug & play, thats already really screwed. I mean things gotten better, but as soon as you deal with a retina display and plug in two 1920x1080 monitors in and out things getting screwed up really really fast. Also 3 monitors didn't worked out really well on login managars in the past years, however thats fixed now when you have the same resolution. That makes me really sad.

thwarted 11y ago
I've written a script that looks at the output of xrandr and reconfigures the screen layout, based on which outputs are plugged in and what the resolutions are. This is then bound to a key via the window manager so I can seamlessly move between laptop only, laptop+1 external, laptop+2 externals, or 2 externals only with just a keypress after coming out of sleep. This has been pretty solid on MacBookPro10,2, running the XFCE spin of Fedora 21. Some people have questioned if I'm running Linux when they see this work. The background on the login screen doesn't always render correctly, but I look at that as often as I reboot (which is like once a month), so that doesn't impact me much (just like boot time, ahem). My main concern is that as things become less shell-scriptable (like requiring complex dbus interactions), doing this will be less accessible to work around design or implementation quirks to achieve the desktop experience one wants. This is the price we pay for progress, I suppose.

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just upgrade to Fedora 21 as soon as 20 is EOL or use ArchLinux, thats what I did after I had enough from too many things that didn't worked out of the box in F

by merb 11y ago

thwarted 11y ago
I've written a script that looks at the output of xrandr and reconfigures the screen layout, based on which outputs are plugged in and what the resolutions are. This is then bound to a key via the window manager so I can seamlessly move between laptop only, laptop+1 external, laptop+2 externals, or 2 externals only with just a keypress after coming out of sleep. This has been pretty solid on MacBookPro10,2, running the XFCE spin of Fedora 21. Some people have questioned if I'm running Linux when they see this work. The background on the login screen doesn't always render correctly, but I look at that as often as I reboot (which is like once a month), so that doesn't impact me much (just like boot time, ahem). My main concern is that as things become less shell-scriptable (like requiring complex dbus interactions), doing this will be less accessible to work around design or implementation quirks to achieve the desktop experience one wants. This is the price we pay for progress, I suppose.