I cannot prevent cinnamon-settings to load the monitor settings

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I cannot prevent cinnamon-settings to load the monitor settings #374

Open Crystal4276 opened 1 year ago

Crystal4276 commented 1 year ago

 * Cinnamon 5.6.5
 * Arch
 * RTX2080, latest Nvidia driver
 * 64 bit

Issue I have two 4K monitors (LG 27'27GN950-B) that i need to set to 2560x1440. It seems that EDID is not exposing this resolution, so the cinnamon application "Display" does not show it. I have an xorg.conf file that i have tested in qtile and works perfectly. I can't find a way to prevent cinnamon to bypass my xorg.conf file.

Among the things i tried:

I have deleted: monitor.xml,
followed the Arch wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/cinnamon#Prevent_Cinnamon_from_overriding_xrandr/xinput_configuration)

It seems "cinnamon-settings-daemon-xrandr.desktop" doesn't exist anymore.

How can I prevent cinnamon to load its own monitor settings and respect xorg.conf ?

Many Thanks.

mtwebster commented 1 year ago

Is there a ~/.config/cinnamon-monitors.xml file? Try deleting that. That arch info needs to be updated I guess - there is no csd-xrandr anymore. Muffin manages display configuration.

Crystal4276 commented 1 year ago

Is there a ~/.config/cinnamon-monitors.xml file?

Yes, sorry i meant that i have deleted cinnamon-monitors.xml. But even without this file, cinnamon changes the xorg.conf configuration upon starting to something else..

Initially, when i land on sddm, the 4K monitors have their resolutions set to 2560x1440 with primary monitor and monitor position properly configured by xorg.conf. As soon as i start a cinnamon session, the resolution is flipped to 4K and the relative monitor placement is modified.

rcalixte commented 1 year ago

@Crystal4276 Have you tried to see if you could get this working with the nouveau drivers? I had a similar problem that started after a recent update with the Nvidia drivers and after I reluctantly switched to the nouveau drivers, I was able to get/set the EDID values and resolutions I wanted using xrandr.

Crystal4276 commented 1 year ago

Yeah, thanks... But i'm gaming on that computer. Even if nouveau works it's not worth it.

I'd just like to shutdown cinnamon-settings-daemon for monitor configuration, since my xorg.conf is working fine. It should be possible ?