[WHEREAMI] Re: whereami - yes!!

[Brian Loe]

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).


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 :-)