After upgrading from XFCE 4.10 to 4.12 I got hit by this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-settings/+bug/1308105 My PC ist connected to a Yamaha RX-V573 AV-reciever. Now, whenever I switch HDMI-ports on my reciever, or turn it off and on again, XFCE won't recognize the monitor again. The monitor tells me there is 'no signal' and goes into power saving mode. Other window managers (e.g. Openbox) work as expected and I have no problem switching HDMI-ports. Also the console keeps working. If I restart the display manager via console the monitor gets recognized again. But the problem still persists if I login to XFCE again... After some research I found the related Ubuntu bugreport. As suggested here I kill xfsettingsd in my current session which returns HDMI-switching to normal. Reproducible: Always
I can confirm this.
This bug is still present, will it ever be fixed?
What graphics card do you have? Also, can you test the patch that is mentioned in the launchpad report. if that fixes it I can revbump the ebuild and add the patch to the tree. The xfce bug tracker isnt loading for me at the moment so I cant find the patch.
I'm using an Nvidia 8600GT. I applied this patch https://bugzilla.xfce.org/attachment.cgi?id=5681 and now power cycling works again.
Created attachment 411742 [details, diff] HDMI Power cycling patch
committed in a revbump, thanks. commit 096e2a949ecadd5a4fdf3731249431c57414fbcb Author: Jason Zaman <perfinion@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Sep 13 19:53:59 2015 +0800 xfce-base/xfce4-settings: fix HDMI power cycling bug Thanks to Micke Eriksson for testing Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/553896 Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1
