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Hi folks.
I hope you'll help me resolve my problem with extended display with i3 wm.
I can't make it work because my laptop display is 16:9 and my DVI monitor is a square pretty much. Proportion doesn't fit.
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 261mm x 163mm
1280x800 60.00*+ 49.99
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32 56.25
640x480 59.94
640x400 60.00
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.02*+ 75.02
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.08 75.03 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 75.00 60.32
640x480 75.00 60.00
720x400 70.08
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
http://oi63.tinypic.com/2j5id1.jpg
I don't want to use two monitors at one time, just VGA1 and with i3bar on downside of display.
Any solutions?? Thanks a lot.
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Last edited by Tomeklechu (2015-11-14 09:36:24)
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You only want one screen? Have you read the wiki article for X and configured X according to your needs? If you want on the fly switching, use xrandr. If you think you need a GUI, consider arandr and/or lxrandr. One of them can even write the current setup to a shell script, so you can load it on boot or with a hotkey, but I don't remember which of the two.
EDIT: You can also automate the process. Google "udev rule external display".
Last edited by Awebb (2015-11-14 01:50:49)
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xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA1 --auto
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Yes only one screen. c0mm0ner's commad done what I wanted. Thank you very much. I tried to do that with xrandr documentation but was very tired and I needed this to be working straight from the morning.
Turning off my laptop display solved problem I've beed trying "xrandr --output VGA1 --auto".
And sorry for this large picture, next time I'll use thumbnail.
Last edited by Tomeklechu (2015-11-14 09:36:58)
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That's why I always promote arandr. You can use a GUI and inspect the command line. A great educational tool.
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I'll read about it when I'll have some free time. Thanks.
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