Re:Disgruntled Ubuntu Unity Users Flock in Droves to Linux Mint
by w1ntermute on Thursday November 24, 2011 @12:33AM
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> I do think a lot of people will be put off by having to learn xrandr, but not me.
None of the people I've helped out have had 2 monitors (I doubt any of them know it's even possible, or would want a second monitor even if they did), so I've been able to avoid that problem so far.
For my own personal purposes (I run Arch Linux, but it's much the same), I've set up a shell script that, based on which monitors it detects as being connected, runs a specific xrandr command to configure my monitors. This works for switching between home (two external monitors, disable laptop monitor), work (enable one external monitor and the laptop monitor), and else (enable only laptop monitor).
For those few times when I have a nonstandard monitor setup (usually when giving a presentation somewhere), I start out with the 'else' configuration and use ARandR[0] to manually add any additional monitors.
None of the people I've helped out have had 2 monitors (I doubt any of them know it's even possible, or would want a second monitor even if they did), so I've been able to avoid that problem so far.
For my own personal purposes (I run Arch Linux, but it's much the same), I've set up a shell script that, based on which monitors it detects as being connected, runs a specific xrandr command to configure my monitors. This works for switching between home (two external monitors, disable laptop monitor), work (enable one external monitor and the laptop monitor), and else (enable only laptop monitor).
For those few times when I have a nonstandard monitor setup (usually when giving a presentation somewhere), I start out with the 'else' configuration and use ARandR[0] to manually add any additional monitors.
0: http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/