[ltp] Last desperate attempt to show off my Debian Thinkpad at a conference

[Carl-Fredrik Enell]

Hi all,

>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

    Uwe> may be this is helpful.
    Uwe> http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~arwagner/computer/T41p/
    Uwe> see the references therein,

I use this setup and it works very nicely. I can do other things on
the LCD while the projector still shows the presentation.
Here is the script I use to start the vnc server and  viewers.


#!/bin/sh

#VNCSRV=":3"
#VNCGEO="1024x768"
#EXTDSP=":0.1"
#Moved to file ./config

. config


# Fire up vncserver and give it some time for things to settle
vncserver -name "Beamer" -geometry $VNCGEO $VNCSRV &
sleep 1
#No screensaver during presentation please
xset -display $EXTDSP s off

# "remote" viewer i.e. the beamer
vncviewer -fullscreen -shared -viewonly  -passwd $HOME/.vnc/passwd localhost$VNCSRV -display $EXTDSP &

# local viewer
xvncviewer -passwd $HOME/.vnc/passwd -shared $VNCSRV & 

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However, is there a way to switch on the external screen without
restarting the X server? I know that some such features of X.org have been
discussed here but what about XFree86? I'm running Debian
unstable. Should I get unofficial packages of X.org?

Regards Carl-Fredrik
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