Re:How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k m...
by teel on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:15AM
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This (monitor being removed from the system if I turn it off) must be the most braindead idea I've seen in a while.
This is why don't turn off my monitor after work day any more, but leave it on and let it go to power saving sleep when it wants so.
Until I figured out what the hell was going I was pulling my hair every morning when I turned on my work monitor (40-something inch 4k display) and found all program windows in the top-left corner of the monitor, stacked on top of each other and resized to some svga-resolution.
Re:How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k m...
by vultour on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:32AM
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Be happy it only happens when you turn off the display. A display on one of my computers triggers this when it goes to sleep, which is about 20 times a day; even worse, it causes every single window to then shift to the "newly discovered" monitor when it wakes up. Almost makes multiple monitors pointless because you have to constantly rearrange the windows back to how they were.
I assume garbling windows isn't technically mandated by the spec, it's just what DWM does when Windows tells it to "rearrange" all windows on a desktop that has lost a bunch of displays, because Windows helpfully noticed that they were turned off.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/66opvp/this_display... https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to... https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-... (AMD workaround) https://www.overclock.net/forum/74-graphics-cards-general/12... https://superuser.com/questions/630555/turning-displayport-m... https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/discover/209725/... https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4895u9/turning_o... https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/9qn0dk/has_anyone_f... https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/788l4f/put_one_dis... and many, many more, like this one: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/24548/displayport-is-the-...