Current Xorg behavior is unfriendly at best

[Rahul Sundaram]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
>> If the monitor is off, I can't talk to it, so I can't ask it what it can
>> do.  Note that this is something of a lie, most monitors made since, oh,
>> 2000, will merely look like they're asleep but will still respond over
>> DDC if they have a power cord plugged in.
>>
>> But if I can't talk to it, I'll use what's in the config file.  Do you
>> have an example of X not doing so?
> 
> Yes... the most frustrating part of all. As I've been trying to
> communicate, xorg does _not_ use my xorg.conf when the monitor is off,
> and instead uses something on the scale of 800x600 which is so large,
> the necessary widgets are off screen.

You need to provide more information including your hardware and xorg 
configuration for others to reproduce and fix any issues. Might be 
better in a bug report.

Rahul