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    Load a fixed screen configuration if configured · 597e826c
    Sebastian Kügler authored
    With this patch, kscreen will prefer a file called fixed-config from
    ~/.local/share/kscreen if it exists. The idea is that a user (let's
    call him Ben) can force a configuration to be loaded even if the
    hardware is a bit wonky (or, complex).
    
    Specifically, this makes the UTS data arena more workable even when
    screens come and go accidentally, the configuration won't be changed
    to something entirely made up but mostly be kept intact. With setups
    with lots of screens this can easily happen when some scientist walks
    over a cable while being in some kind of virtual reality. (It
    happens to me literally all the time).
    
    We've been testing this feature for over a year, I'm merging it now
    since it makes the lives of one of our high-profile users a lot
    easier, so as a maintainer I'm fine with bearing the costs of this
    additional code-path, just in this case.
    
    CCMAIL:ben.simons@uts.edu.au
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