XFCE 'Display Settings' Confirmation Woes (Timeout impossibly short)
by obobskivich from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55CNK)
I'm trying to change my monitor configuration(s) in XFCE 4 (Xubuntu 20.04) - whenever I enable or disable a monitor, it wants to force one of those 'display settings are changed, you have 10 seconds to click OK or I will revert it because I don't believe you really know what you want' pop-ups. However, none of my monitors can re-sync fast enough, so essentially I cannot change settings because by the time the monitor is re-drawn, guess what? Its reverting!
This happens on both of my XFCE-based desktop systems (which tells me this is not 'a bug' - it's 'a feature') - one of them has an nVidia card, so I can just use the nVidia X Server Settings applet and make changes there (it, graciously, offers a 20-30s timeout), but the other one uses Radeon and thus I am (at least as far as I know) stuck with the XFCE settings (and thus stuck with the monitor configuration it defaulted to, more or less). Short of having to physically unhook monitors when I want to disable/change them, what can I do? Can I defeat this worthless nanny setting? Can I extend the time out infinite or near-infinite time? (Ideally I'd love to 'break' this feature on both machines because it is quite frustrating).
Side note: I'm guessing I could manually edit my xconf and force whatever configuration I want, but then I would have to restart X and/or log in/out and/or reboot everytime I wanted to make what should be a simple change - if Windows and OS X can do this seamlessly, why can't Linux? (and it's really more 'why can't XFCE?' - because this behavior works exactly fine on GNOME and KDE).
Any thoughts?
This happens on both of my XFCE-based desktop systems (which tells me this is not 'a bug' - it's 'a feature') - one of them has an nVidia card, so I can just use the nVidia X Server Settings applet and make changes there (it, graciously, offers a 20-30s timeout), but the other one uses Radeon and thus I am (at least as far as I know) stuck with the XFCE settings (and thus stuck with the monitor configuration it defaulted to, more or less). Short of having to physically unhook monitors when I want to disable/change them, what can I do? Can I defeat this worthless nanny setting? Can I extend the time out infinite or near-infinite time? (Ideally I'd love to 'break' this feature on both machines because it is quite frustrating).
Side note: I'm guessing I could manually edit my xconf and force whatever configuration I want, but then I would have to restart X and/or log in/out and/or reboot everytime I wanted to make what should be a simple change - if Windows and OS X can do this seamlessly, why can't Linux? (and it's really more 'why can't XFCE?' - because this behavior works exactly fine on GNOME and KDE).
Any thoughts?