Bug 773780

Summary: [Feature] Add multimonitor position settings to display dialog
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Raphael Groner <projects.rg>
Component: xfce4-settingsAssignee: Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: kevin, maxamillion
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Description Raphael Groner 2012-01-12 21:36:01 UTC 
Created attachment 552507 [details]
Upstream patch

Description of problem:
The current display dialog is useless for users with more than one monitor if
they wish to use anything other than a cloned mode.

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How reproducible:
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Steps to Reproduce:
1. call xfce4-display-settings 
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Actual results:
Positions are not configurable.

Expected results:
User can modify positions of virtual screens.

Additional info:
A working patch can be found upstream.
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465

To tweak the spec file, use ./autogen.sh instead of %configure, otherwise the patch won't show any effect to the dialog because the glade file must be regenerated (see https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465#c8 ).
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-sound-settings --enable-pluggable-dialogs
Comment 1 Raphael Groner 2012-01-12 23:08:05 UTC 
Forget about using autogen.sh in the spec file, it's sufficient to add --enable-maintainer-mode to %configure to regenerate the glade header file after applied the patch.
Comment 2 Raphael Groner 2012-01-13 16:05:36 UTC 
Scratch build:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3658639
Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2012-01-21 19:39:59 UTC 
ok. I have commited this to rawhide. I'd like to let it cook there for a bit and if it looks stable push out to stable releases. 

Thanks for the pointer to the patch!
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-02-19 20:56:02 UTC 
xfce4-settings-4.8.3-4.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfce4-settings-4.8.3-4.fc16