average linux experience
can play videos on tv with cool interface
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can’t just turn the TV on though because if you start X without an HDMI client it won’t ever start the display and you have to reboot to get the interface up
cringe
average linux experience
@icedquinn Wait what? I hotplug HDMI displays with X almost every day.
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also my desktop (much newer computer) worked with HDMI but since i changed to a displayport monitor X will 'forget' there is a monitor there and won't use it if its turned off too long. have to restart X while the monitor is alive to fix.
but that's the cost of freedom i guess.
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@icedquinn@blob.cat @swiley@qoto.org I have the same category of bs on the pinephone. usb c display hotplug will fuck up X like no other (i thought this was wayland country anyway??)
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@icedquinn @purple You could run a deamon in the background to do it. None of the OSes I use (besides guix which I haven't tried this with) run *anything* in the background after bootup besides agetty.
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@icedquinn @purple But you really don't need to restart your display server to enable/disable monitors. It's something like `xrandr --output HDMI-1 --auto` to turn it on IIRC.
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@icedquinn @purple If OSX works for you it's nice that you can throw money at the problem. OSX has some serious issues that make it useless as far as I'm concerned.
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@icedquinn @purple The maintainers of your distro probably. You could maybe write a udev rule that works for you and suggest that and see what they say.
IMO: xrandr is pretty user friendly (except that no one tells you about it) and there are worse things to be upset about.
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now i don't have to restart lightdm every time the monitor is off for 30 minutes.
@purple