Excellent, thanks! I can manage to live with it until this hits a release. :)
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:29 PM Michael Stapelberg <mich...@i3wm.org> wrote: > See https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/1638 (not yet in any released version). > > Refer to http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html for automatically > built packages from git. > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Bart Samwel <bsam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a multi-monitor setup where I want to use *either* my laptop > screen > > *or* my external monitor. I've set up an "autoxrandr" script like this, > to > > enable an external monitor if it's connected, and to enable the laptop > panel > > otherwise: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > for output in $(xrandr | grep '\Wconnected' | awk '{ print $1 }'); do > > if [[ ! $output =~ ^LVDS.*$ ]]; then > > other=$output > > fi > > done > > > > if [ "$other" != "" ] ; then > > xrandr --output $other --auto --primary --output LVDS1 --off > > else > > xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --primary > > fi > > > > The trouble is that when the laptop is connected to an external screen, > and > > when I turn the monitor off, it seems that i3 exits. What I want instead > is > > that it either keeps running so that I can switch the laptop screen on, > or > > that I can configure it to automatically turn the laptop screen on. > > > > I have no clue where to debug this. This is on Ubuntu 14.04 and using > > lightdm. The lightdm logs say that the session (i3) exits and that's why > its > > stopping the session. I don't think I can get i3 logs using the > instructions > > at http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html because both i3 and the X > session are > > dead after this happens. > > > > Any idea what I could try here? > > > > -- > Best regards, > Michael >
