Re: Laptop + VGA + X

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 06:39:44PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes
> > white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop
> > (not always with success).
> > 
> > Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA monitor does not work
> > when X is active. (It works very fine with framebuffer, though.)
> > 
> > How to enable Xorg to use a VGA monitor plugged to a laptop?
>  
> I use a command like this:
> 
> xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA1 --auto

Yes, thanks. To add some "recipe-y" ideas, at work I have a big external
monitor. I do this:

  xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200 \
         --output LVDS --mode 1366x768 --below VGA-0

And then I tell my Fvwm that there's more "room":

  cat <<__END | FvwmCommand -c
  XineramaSlsScreens 2 1600x1200+0+0 1366x768+0+1200
  XineramaSls On
  Xinerama On
  __END
  

(of course, the FvwmCommands module must be loaded for that). Hope that
inspires some desktop rebels out there ;-)

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