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karlospv94

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Registered: 2016-10-12

Posts: 101

[SOLVED] Execute xorg configuration only if applicable

I have this xorg config file:

➜ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf                                          
Section "Monitor"
  Identifier  "eDP-1"
  Option      "LeftOf" "HDMI-1"
  Option      "Ignore" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier  "HDMI-1"
  VendorName  "LG"
  ModelName "24UD58"
  Option  "RightOf" "eDP-1"
  Option  "DPMS" "true"
  Option  "Primary" "true"
EndSection

But I want It to be applied only when I have the HDMI-1 connected. Is It possible? I have not seen anything related to this in the wiki

Last edited by karlospv94 (2017-07-27 13:29:27)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Execute xorg configuration only if applicable

Assuming you're not running a DE that provides likewise functionality, you could go for https://keithp.com/blogs/x-on-resize/ and a script that queries "xrandr -q | grep "HDMI-1 connected" to know whether to "xrandr --output eDP-1 --auto" or "xrandr --output eDP-1 --off" (this assumes you want to toggle the screens, right?)

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Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Execute xorg configuration only if applicable

Is this of any use?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227655

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karlospv94

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Re: [SOLVED] Execute xorg configuration only if applicable

I finally managed it with the KDE interface. Even so, it should be great to configure the primary monitor before login. I have being looking for it in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM but it doesn't seem possible.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Execute xorg configuration only if applicable

From https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SD … te_display follow the link to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xr … figuration and look into the gree box and below ;-)

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karlospv94

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Registered: 2016-10-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Execute xorg configuration only if applicable

From https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SD … te_display follow the link to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xr … figuration and look into the gree box and below ;-)

True, thanks! I didn't see it...