Arch Linux

Naatan

Member

Registered: 2013-05-28

Posts: 4

Gnome 3.26 won't respect my monitors.xml

I'm using Gnome-Shell 3.26 on Arch with 3 monitors (connected through a mini displayport to 3 HDMI hub). This hardware setup has worked fine with earlier versions of the software.

The problem I'm facing is Gnome-Shell just WON'T respect my monitors.xml, I can get it to generate a new monitors.xml just by modifying my display configuration via the gnome settings interface, but as soon as I restart gnome shell (alt-f2: r) the display configuration reset altogether.

This is my monitors.xml:

<monitors version="2">
  <configuration>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>3840</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>DP-1-2</connector>
          <vendor>ACI</vendor>
          <product>ASUS VS228</product>
          <serial>C7LMQS146415</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>60</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>1920</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <primary>yes</primary>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>DP-1-1-2</connector>
          <vendor>ACI</vendor>
          <product>VX279</product>
          <serial>ECLMRS015424</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>60</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>DP-1-1-1</connector>
          <vendor>ACI</vendor>
          <product>ASUS VS228</product>
          <serial>C9LMTF180907</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>60</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
    <disabled>
      <monitorspec>
        <connector>eDP-1</connector>
        <vendor>SDC</vendor>
        <product>0x424a</product>
        <serial>0x00000000</serial>
      </monitorspec>
    </disabled>
  </configuration>
</monitors>

This is the output of

xrandr -q | grep " connected"

eDP-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-1-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 476mm x 268mm
DP-1-1-2 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
DP-1-2 connected 1920x1080+3840+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 476mm x 268mm

Why is my monitors.xml not being respected? Could something be overriding it?

das_osi

Member

Registered: 2017-10-12

Posts: 1

Re: Gnome 3.26 won't respect my monitors.xml

Take a look at this, looks to me like it could be the same problem

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788691

Naatan

Member

Registered: 2013-05-28

Posts: 4

Re: Gnome 3.26 won't respect my monitors.xml

Thanks! That does look like it might be the same issue.