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External displays don't always turn on when connecting to docking station

Almost every time, when I re-plug my laptop to the docking station, the external screens don't "wake up", I have to unplug and re-plug the docking station a couple times until it works.

It seems not to happen when I just booted the laptop, but this time, I had a case where the screens woke up, displayed something, and then rejected the signal. So I assume the timings weren't correct somehow.

I have ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 (20XWCTO1WW) with a 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 × 8 (TGL GT2).

The docking station is a Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 2 with the latest firmware version (updated using a Windows computer, this one seems to still be in "testing" in LVFS), but I had the problem before the update too.

I'm running Fedora 39 Workstation with the standard GNOME/Mutter/Wayland setup, currently with kernel 6.7.4-200.fc39.x86_64, but this has been happening for a while.

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