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Idea #22413: Switching Display on laptops should appear in Notify-osd

Written by onesimus the 12 Nov 09 at 10:11. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Currently, when a laptop switches its display from its screen to (say) a projector there is not indication that it is about to happen, or which display(s) will be used. Often there can be a lag of a number of seconds, and hence the user tries to switch the displays again (in their belief nothing is happening)
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Solution #1: Indicate to user in Notify-osd
Written by onesimus the 12 Nov 09 at 10:11.
The user could be shown icons in Notify-osd about the switch that is going to happen.
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Solution #2: Speed up switching
Written by Akerbos the 13 Nov 09 at 14:21.
Faster switch, no problem. Let's attack the problem and not build patches around it.
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Solution #3: Implement Config Preview
Written by Akerbos the 14 Nov 09 at 17:05.
I remember from my times with Windows that there was something not unlike the Alt-Tab Window Switcher we have now for screen configurations. Pressing Fn+? would bring it up and cycle through the respective configs. Only releasing Fn again would actually switch. Implement that and switching becomes a much more concious act.

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onesimus wrote on the 14 Nov 09 at 15:37
Is the delay caused by the laptop waiting for a hardware response from the projector ? And if so, is it possible to speed up switching ?

mdhunn wrote on the 2 Dec 09 at 21:17
I was thinking same thing. You can't always speed up the hardware.


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