[OT] Re: Changing screens
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 13:56:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:38:25PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home and on
> > the road (with Debian Etch installed). At home, the laptop is connected
> > to an external screen, with the laptop closed (so, at home, I don't use
> > the laptops own screen). The two screens have different resolutions
> > (laptop screen: 1440 x 1024, external screen at home: 1280 x 1024).
> >
> > The problem is that Debian uses the same screen resolution for both
> > screens, wich I find annoying (it uses 1440 x 1024, which means that the
> > image is larger than what fits on my external screen). How can I make
> > Debain use the appropriate screen size? Do I have to set it manually or
> > is there a way to adjust the screen size automatically?
> >
>
> If there is some surefire way to tell which monitor is connected, then
> it should be a simple matter to restart X with a script that checks
> which monitor you're using and points to the appropriate xorg.conf
> (or even changes the file directly (not recommened)).
Something like
ddcprobe | egrep 'eisa|serial'
will probably give enough information as long as the monitor is DDC
capable. ("ddcprobe" is in package "xresprobe")
>
> If monitor detection is not really possible (I personally wouldn't
> know how to do it) then a simple script could be used to change a
> symlink to point to the appropriate xorg.conf. then an /etc/init.d/*dm
> restart would fix you right up.
>
> there are many solutions but essentially you have to set up some
> situation where you can put different xorg.conf's in place as needed.
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