[WHEREAMI] Re: whereami - yes!!

[Andrew McMillan]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:41 -0600, Brian Loe wrote:
> I just heard of your tool, and am preparing to install it!
> 
> I have a question though - can you do this for something like a monitor
> configuration? To be sure, laptop users switch between MANY types of
> different configurations but mine seems to be unheard of (based on what
> I've been able to find googling anyway). I have a dual monitor setup at
> home with my big, external monitory being "1" and the laptop LCD being
> "2". When I go into the office I just have the LCD screen. The only way
> to currently switch them is by doing it manually and restarting KDE.
> 
> I'd be happy with an additional option on the log-in screen - but an
> auto-configure would be even sweeter!

It's something I would like to see done, but I don't know of any way to
tell X that I have two screens now in a scripted manner.

Certainly, you could do something in whereami.conf like:

+2monitors /usr/local/bin/2_monitors_on.sh
-2monitors /usr/local/bin/2_monitors_off.sh

And write the scripts that restarted kdm with the appropriate
configuration in those scripts.

That could be kind of brutal though if it has to stop / start X to do
it.  Do you (or does anyone) know of a way to change it on the fly?  Is
it possible with xset +something, perhaps?


> If nothing else, thanks for reading my wine (whine?).

No problem.  This is something I'd like to know how to do myself, but I
just get a bigger laptop screen instead - currently 1920x1200 :-)

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan.

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