Re: Gnome 3 vs scientists (ie., external monitor problem)

[Artur Wroblewski <wrobell pld-linux org>]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr> wrote:
> Hi! I can't answer on the technical part (hope others will), but I can
> answer this:
>
> Le lundi 30 mai 2011 à 11:20 -0400, Jan Skowron a écrit :
>> Also, if one have learned that his card would not sustain external
>> monitor, how he would disable the standard Gnome Shell and set
>> fallback as a default option? This information would be useful as well (in a
>> FAQ or so) to avoid problems/confusion/waste of time every time the
>> projector or monitor is plugged in or intended to be plugged in.
> There's no real risk upgrading to GNOME 3, since you can easily switch
> off the Shell and use the fallback mode, which is the good old
> gnome-panel like in GNOME 2 (but revamped). You just need to go to
> System Settings->System Information->Graphics. I agree it could be good
> to have this information in the FAQ, feel free to add it now you
> know! ;-)

with all the respect, but that's not so easy
- the switch to fallback mode requires logout
- the fallback mode is buggy on some cards it seems

regards,

w