[ltp] automatically detecting external monitor?

[Juergen Lemke]

Hi Richard

Thank you for your help. I will try binding xrandr as
you suggested.

Best

Juerg

--- Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> schrieb:

> 
> 
> Juergen Lemke wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I have been the happy user of a X30 under
> GNU/Linux
> > for a couple of years now. I finally got around to
> > using an external monitor, keyboard and mouse
> whenever
> > I am at a desk, and I have successfully configured
> > X.org to work with both the internal monitor (at
> > 1024x768x24) as well as the external one (at
> > 1280x1024x24). For other users of this model, I
> have
> > attached my xorg.conf in case they find it useful.
> > 
> > I do so by using two "Screen" sections in my
> xorg.conf
> > file, and starting X with either
> > 
> > $ startx -- - screen internal
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > $ startx -- - screen external
> > 
> > This works fine. But is it possible to have X
> > automatically detect if the external monitor is
> > attached, and pick the correct "Screen" section on
> its
> > own?
> > 
> > Thank you for any advice!
> 
> No idea how to autodetect, but why not set up a
> single screen, with 
> various resolutions up to 1280x1024. Then use
> xvidtune/xrandr to 
> dynamically re-size and scale, without needing to
> restart X. You could 
> maybe even bind it to Fn-F7 using acpi.
> 
> Richard
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