Bug 381022 - [multiscreen] Unplug your external monitor and... nothing happens?
Summary: [multiscreen] Unplug your external monitor and... nothing happens?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Factory
Hardware: Other Other
: P4 - Low : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2008-04-17 18:32 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2008-11-29 23:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Vincent Untz 2008-04-17 18:32:44 UTC 
1. Configure your external monitor to be nicely configured. Add some panel there, move some windows, etc.
2. Unplug the monitor.
3. See that you lost tons of windows and panels.

Hotplugging will be cool. Hot-unplugging should be cool too ;-)
Comment 1 Scott Reeves 2008-08-20 19:58:37 UTC 
Probably an enhancement for 11.1
Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-11-29 23:18:49 UTC 
We cannot detect hot-unplug or hot-plug in the general case :(

This is actually a limitation in the hardware.  You have to poll VGA to see if it is connected (and in some cards it flickers).   Also, not all drivers do hotplug detection with DVI connections.