> A major annoyance is that Xorg always disregards my last setting every > time I reboot my laptop and will always clone the laptop display to > the external screen with the resolution of 1024x768 for both. I have > to start the monitor resolution control applet to change my screen > configuration every time I restart my computer. I don't want that. > > What I want is to make the laptop output to the external screen only, > when it detects one over the HDMI port, and then makes the desktop > 1600x1050 (or even better, the optimal resolution for the external > screen). If there is none, then it should use the internal display. I > don't care if I need to restart X every time I plug/unplug my external > monitor, as I don't do that very often.
You can use xrandr to reconfigure the screens on-the-fly. I have a script that automate this but I don't have it available right now... You can check these pages for more informations: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR > Xorg has eliminated the xorg.conf so I don't know where to fix it, or > where to get a sample config file that will work optimally with my > screens. I have tried sudo X --configure but it just creates a garbage > file that make X crashes. Actually you can use xorg.conf, it's just that X.org will do its best to autoconfigure if there is none. In case X.org finds a xorg.conf it will use it ;) > Thank you for your ideas to help this noob out, Lucky is the noob, for (s)he has a lot to learn :) _______________________________________________ POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines _______________________________________________ HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
