On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 05:23:02PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:41:53 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> > >> I'm not familiar with your laptop, but most laptops have a way to switch [snip] > > I'm talking about an either/or scenario, where by means of a key > combination on the internal keyboard the monitor is switched to internal > or external. Using both monitors simultaneously with different images > on each one (i.e. displaying a web browser in one window and playing > solitaire in the other one) is a whole different thing. If that's what > you want to do, you're out of my league. I have no experience with that. > > > > But I really wanted to be able to do it from the cmd line ! > > Well, there's chvt, but that is something completely different. > That's multiple logical (text-mode) terminals on a single physical > terminal. > Okay a couple of things, I thing we are talking similiar and dissimiliar things. turn on laptop - not connected to ext monitor loads debian starts gdm login connect to external monitor use xrandr to move screen to ext monitor close lid on laptop use alt+ctrl+f1 to get to tty1 the ext monitor stays on the X screen and the laptop monitors goes to the tty - but the lid is closed, I want to move the tty to the ext monitor hope that clears it up... Alex --
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