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    GNOME's Mutter Gets Native Monitor Hot-Plugging

    Phoronix: GNOME's Mutter Gets Native Monitor Hot-Plugging

    Besides native OpenGL support for GTK+, another early change to look forward to with next year's GNOME 3.16 release is native monitor hot-plugging...

    GNOME's Mutter Gets Native Monitor Hot-Plugging - Phoronix
    http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxNDY
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    For me this sounds like a killer feature, and I will probably reconsider using Gnome because of that.

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      How is this different from what kscreen does right now?

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        Originally posted by TheBlackCat View Post
        How is this different from what kscreen does right now?
        It simply means monitor hotplug works when running as a wayland compositor. When running as X11 compositor this is handled by the xrandr backend, on wayland its the KMS (native) backend.

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          Originally posted by drago01 View Post
          It simply means monitor hotplug works when running as a wayland compositor. When running as X11 compositor this is handled by the xrandr backend, on wayland its the KMS (native) backend.
          I see. That wasn't clear from the article, which doesn't mention anything at all about wayland.

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