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Hi,
I have a laptop which I sometimes use with an external monitor using twinview, and other times I do not. I have one xorg.conf that has my twinview settings, and one that has my normal settings. When I do startx, is it possible to set which xorg.conf I want to use, depending on whether I want twinview or not? Or is there a much easier way of doing this?
Thanks.
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Hmmm - maybe something like this ...
Make a shell-script like the one below, name eg. 'mystartx' and invoke your xsession with:
bash $ mystartx twin #twinview mode
or just
bash $ mystartx # normal mode
#!/bin/sh
xorgfile=xorg.conf.normal
test $# -gt 0 && {
case `echo $1 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in
twin*) xorgfile=xorg.conf.twinview ;;
norm*) ;;
*) echo "usage: $0 [twin] >&2"
exit 1 ;;
esac
}
cp /etc/X11/$xorgfile /etc/X11/xorg.conf
startxI might well be doing something wrong here - and I haven't tried it!
Proceed with caution ... ;-)
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On 2nd thought - you _can_ specify the '-f {xorg.conf}' to the server, so maybe this will do:
startx -- -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf.twinviewLast edited by perbh (2009-04-08 17:38:01)
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Thanks. I've been doing something similar where I aliased startx1 and startx2. Startx1 copies a xorg.conf backup without twinview as xorg.conf, while startx2 copies a xorg.conf backup with twinview as xorg.conf and does startx. I was hoping there would be a cleaner way to do it but I guess not?
Last edited by normman (2009-04-08 17:29:49)
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I have a similar problem and have started looking into it. I still don't have a dfinitive solution, but try and look into this
" If it aint broke... Then you're not trying hard enough! "
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*chuckles* I guess not - unless my2nd suggestion works, in which case you could use an alias - but in reality, it boils down to the same thing.
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