Comment 40 for bug 1615734

am seeing this on ubuntu 18.04 with a dell m3800 and OWC thunderbolt 2 dock and 4k iiyama 40 inch screen attach via displayport.

My internal 13inch 4k screen is initialised immediately but the external monitor tries to sync but often times out.

It looks to me as if this is just an issue with timeouts , surely the driver can made aware that its trying to sync and external screen so should allow longer. This seems to be excerbated by my having different scaling levels on each screen

Sometimes my laptop screen comes back with a strip missing down the side or the the external monitor is at the wrong resolution.

EVERY time it randommly rearranges my windows and triggers a bug with scaling in some qt5 apps (virtualbox , notes) where they get scaled up .

Its very annoying having to keep re-arangeing things.

I tried setting monitors.xml to be readonly and it complains , why can i not fix my layouts ?