[xmonad] Re: modal window gets placed on unplugged monitor, makes system unusable

[Lara Michaels]

Many thanks, I will try this and report back! I am using the intel drivers, so this should work.

thanks!
~l

--- On Wed, 7/14/10, Justin Bogner <mail at justinbogner.com> wrote:

> From: Justin Bogner <mail at justinbogner.com>
> Subject: [xmonad] Re: modal window gets placed on unplugged monitor, makes system unusable
> To: xmonad at haskell.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 4:47 AM
> Lara Michaels writes:
> > More generally (ie, besides a solution to this
> particular problem with
> > gnome-keyring), is there a way for me to make sure
> xmonad will not
> > place windows on parts of my screen that are
> inaccessible when my
> > laptop is by itself?
> 
> If you're using open source video drivers (ie, not the
> nvidia drivers)
> merely calling the command xrandr should refresh the number
> of displays
> you have, thus making everything work sanely. If you use
> the nvidia
> proprietary drivers this doesn't work, because nvidia fails
> at xrandr.
> 
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