Dynamic multi monitor support

[Tim Watts]

Hi Jean-Francois,

You sir are a genius...

Not only does arandr work, I get a couple of handy xrandr shell scripts 
that I've just bound to icons on the taskbar,
one for "Laptop Screen Only" and another for "Dual Monitor, Home".

Beautiful.

Many thanks,

Tim

On 23/04/11 10:49, Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Did you try arandr (http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/) ?
>
> Regards
>
> Le samedi 23 avril 2011 à 09:47 +0100, Tim Watts a écrit :
>> (Also posted to mailing list)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to switch to XFCE - much more suitable for my tastes than
>> the ever bloating gnome and KDE desktops smile
>>
>> One gotcha though: This is on a laptop and I often jack a second
>> monitor in at home via the displayport socket.
>>
>> On Gnome, I can just run gnome-display-properties and switch the
>> second monitor on and my desktop adapts to the new geometry nicely.
>> Ditto, I can switch off the 2nd monitor without logging out.
>>
>> XFCE works nicely if I restart X - but I cannot find a nice way to
>> switch the 2nd monitor on and off whilst keeping a log in session
>> active (I generally stay logged into to my laptop a week at a time).
>>
>> I tried gnome-display-properties manually but it seems to have no
>> effect on XFCE/Xorg - which suggests there may be a helper missing???
>>
>> Any tips on whether I can do this - then my switch will be
>> complete :-)
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
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