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Please add the possibility to save and load configuration profiles
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Display Settings

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Description Michael Kogan 2017-04-04 13:16:28 CEST
Recently, I have bumped into the following user case several times: One screen is used permanently while the other one is only switched on from time to time (usually it is a TV which is only needed if a movie needs to be watched). When the second screen is on, Xfce makes a guess on how to configure it, which is quite good, but usually the user wants to change the configuration (for example the relative position of the screens). This configuration needs to be repeated whenever the display is switched off and on again.

It would be great to have the possibility to manually configure a display setup, then save the whole settings into a profile and be able to select the whole set of settings whenever necessary. One could have a dropdown list of profiles with the functionality of loading, saving, deleting and applying any of them. In the long term one could extend this feature to automatic recognition of the connected screens and selecting the fitting profile (which needs to be appointed by the user once) automatically.
Comment 1 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2019-01-11 23:38:52 CET
This has been implemented and released already:
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/commit/?id=b692780cdce46447cebb4af410da5b0b355e6eb5

Bug #13477

Reported by:
Michael Kogan
Reported on: 2017-04-04
Last modified on: 2019-01-11

People

Assignee:
Jérôme Guelfucci
CC List:
4 users

Version

Version:
4.13.0

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