On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 04:13:48PM -0500, Leslie Katz wrote: > I have a laptop that I usually connect to an external monitor. I use Ubuntu > 16.04 and Gnome 3.18.5. When I do connect to the external monitor, I like to > turn the laptop screen off. I can do that by going to System Settings, > Screen Display, selecting the built-in display and then clicking "off". I'd > like to automate the process.
GNOME should already automate that. It remembers your settings for each set of connected monitor configurations, and when you plug in or unplug a monitor, it restores them. The configurations themselves are stored in ~/.config/monitors.xml. The process responsible for applying them on hotplug/unplug events is gnome-settings-daemon. (Ubuntu might have a unity-settings-daemon which is a fork of an older version of gnome-settings-daemon, but it does the same thing.) There's a way to turn that autoconfiguration off, which might explain why it's not happening for you. It's a setting somewhere in dconf/gsettings, but I don't remember exactly where. HTH, Marius Gedminas -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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