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PandaScale

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Registered: 2025-02-24

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Display Profiles are not applied and are missing from settings

I'm using XFCE3 with i3wm. I've configured it to automatically enable profiles when a new display is connected.

When I connect my external monitor, I see the profile in ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml and xfce4-settings-editor, but when I open xfce4-display-settings, no profiles are displayed under "Profiles matching the currently connected displays".

If I try to add a new profile, it says "A profile of this name already exists".

Even though I have "Automatically enable profiles when a new display is connected" enabled, no profile gets applied when I have my external monitor plugged in.

Every time I open my laptop from sleep, I have to reconfigure the display settings manually before I can do anything. How can I get profiles working so I don't have to do this every time?

dchmelik

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Registered: 2022-04-02

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Re: Display Profiles are not applied and are missing from settings

I have similar problem.  Though I saved a profile on earlier version, now it no longer applies (but seems I can't save a new one).  When I go away, it soon turns my screen off, including disabling the biggest.  When I come back, they're rearranged, and if I try to rearrange them before enabling the biggest, it moves all around.  Occasionally rearranging them leads to only small parts of monitors being active, though the few/couple times that happened, reinstalling XFCE fixed that.  I was told display settings code has been changing a lot, but it seems to have mostly gotten worse.

Last edited by dchmelik (2025-02-25 03:22:37)