external monitor

[Nick Schermer]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Markus Hoenicka
<markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de> wrote:
> Jönne Speck <jspeck at runbox.com> was heard to say:
>
>> When I've plugged in an external monitor to my laptop running xfce how do
>> I enable it, adjust its resolution, and switch off my laptop screen?
>
> Afaik XFCE does not have GUI support for this, but X has a command-line
> interface to the RandR extension which handles such things these days. See
>
> http://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/man/man1/xrandr.1.html

In 4.8 this part will be improved a lot, so you just have to wait for
the next release or start using xfce4-settings 4.7.2 + other
development releases.

Nick