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Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
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xrandr block with gdm3 #1697

Open euri10 opened 1 year ago

euri10 commented 1 year ago

there are long standing issue in gdm3 that spams syslog everytime xrandr asks for the monitors sizes (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/805 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/612 )

so I discovered I face the same because the xrandr block triggers periodically a xrandr --listactivemonitors

I know this is gdm3 issue, but if there was a way to work around it would be great,

If not I would gladly add some sort of warning in the docs: having a syslog full of crap is not fun

MaxVerevkin commented 1 year ago

The docs already mention #274 and #668 and advise to use a higher update interval. Is your issue related? In any case, improving the docs is always welcomed.

but if there was a way to work around it would be great,

Some discussion here: #1433

euri10 commented 1 year ago

yes it's exactly what's reported in the 2 issues you linked that I'm facing,

one thing that would be interesting would be to check if affected users effectively use gdm3 which seems to me the root of the spam, not xrandr, and those 2 reports never mention it.

I can for myself say that I see only this on my laptop where I use gdm3 and not on my desktop where I'm using lightdm