[WHEREAMI] Re: whereami - yes!!

[Andrew McMillan]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 15:58 -0600, Brian Loe wrote:
> WOW - that's a big screen!

:-)


> If I figure anything out for switching the monitors, I'll let you know.
> Essentially I would think it would only require changing xorg.conf files
> and restarting X (doing whatever it does when you press
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).

Well that should be doable with:

 /etc/init.d/kdm stop; /etc/init.d/kdm start

It's just that that is a bit brutal and you lose all your current
program state.  Personally I prefer to keep all my programs running, so
it would be nicer if there were some magic command line program that
could enable / disable the extra screen.  Something like xrandr or xset
look like the sort of program that _should_ be able to handle it, but
from their man pages they clearly can't :-(


> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 10:47 +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:41 -0600, Brian Loe wrote:
> > > 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 :-)
> 
> 
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