[bug] DispVM opens off screen with some monitor configurations

[wyory]

Greetings:

When I have two monitors attached, one it portrait and one in landscape,
my DispVM reliably opens up off-screen.

The only way I can get the window is by right clicking and maximizing it
from the KDE task manager.

I can provide more details if it is helpful.

-wyory

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

Thanks for the report, added here:
https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/949

As a workaround you can try to call qubes-monitor-layout-notify tool
after DispVM startup, but I guess it will not be convenient.

There is a simple fix - add a call to that tool during DispVM startup,
but this will prolong the startup, which is not desirable effect.

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Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
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[wyory]

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki:

> On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 06:45:19AM +0000, wyory wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> When I have two monitors attached, one it portrait and one in landscape,
>> my DispVM reliably opens up off-screen.
>>
>> The only way I can get the window is by right clicking and maximizing it
>> from the KDE task manager.
>>
>> I can provide more details if it is helpful.
>
> Thanks for the report, added here:
> https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/949
>
> As a workaround you can try to call qubes-monitor-layout-notify tool
> after DispVM startup, but I guess it will not be convenient.
>
> There is a simple fix - add a call to that tool during DispVM startup,
> but this will prolong the startup, which is not desirable effect.
>

Running qubes-monitor-layout-notify in Dom0 after DispVM start-up does
not seem to fix this. I can't find documentation for the command so I'm
not sure if I'm evoking it correctly.

[Unman]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 07:29:23AM +0000, wyory wrote:
> Marek Marczykowski-G??recki:

I'm not convinced this is qubes specific - I seem to remember seeing it
under kde before.
I have a phantom vga monitor which shows up in system settings under
dom0. I disable it there and the problem goes away.

unman