external monitor

[Jönne Speck]

Dear list,

Thanks to all who answered my question on how to get an external monitor working. I've finally decided for the first suggestion and am using xrandr now.

Best
Jönne

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 01:15:02PM +0200, Markus Hoenicka 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
> 
> regards,
> Markus
> 
> 
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> Markus Hoenicka
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> 
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