Kyle McDonald wrote:
> My question is how will Solaris/Xorg deal with docking and undocking
> from the docking station?? Windows handles it fine, moving from single
> head to multihead and back again. I don't need to be able to dock with
> the laptop on (Windows is supposed to be able to do this, but I have
> problems if I don't at least hibernate before switching.) Hibernating or
> shutting down even would be acceptable.
>
> I'm just wondering if it's possible to have a single Xorg config file
> that will handle both situations? I'd hate to have to login at the text
> console, copy in a saved config, and then restart a service or reboot
> the machine.
xrandr 1.2 allows resizing the desktop and adding/removing outputs on the
fly - I've never tried with a docking station, but I have taken a running
laptop, plugged in a projector to the VGA output, run xrandr to activate
the output, and seen the picture just appear on screen. Google should
find more examples of using xrandr in situations like this - for the most
part, Xorg on Solaris, Linux & BSD should be the same here.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
