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KlavKalashj

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Registered: 2008-10-09

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[SOLVED]Please help me convert this xrandr script into a xorg.conf

Hi!

First of all, I hope this is posted in the right forum section.

My laptop is often connected to my tv when I'm at home, using only that screen. I have a xrandr script pasted in /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup that sets the resolution right for KDM, but it does not run early enough, so login screen looks weird, 70% of the screen is moved to the left and the rest is moved to the right. Kind of hard to explain. I am thinking a proper xorg.conf would solve this issue, but I don't really know how that would work out if the tv is not connected. Here is the script:

#!/bin/bash
if xrandr -q | grep "HDMI1 connected" > /dev/null ; then
        xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1360x768
        xrandr --output LVDS1 --off
else
        xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1366x768
        xrandr --output HDMI1 --off
fi

Rather basic, checks if tv is connected and makes proper adjustments if so. Would a xorg.conf work, or is there a file parsed earlier that I could use? KDM is started with inittab method. Thanks in advance!

Last edited by KlavKalashj (2011-06-07 10:27:27)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: [SOLVED]Please help me convert this xrandr script into a xorg.conf

Does this still apply?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xr … up_scripts

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KlavKalashj

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Re: [SOLVED]Please help me convert this xrandr script into a xorg.conf

Does this still apply?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xr … up_scripts

I don't know. Same script is there too. Could they be in some kind of conflict?

Edit: After todays KDE update the file /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup was wiped, and then KDM was in 800x600 or something, so I guess /etc/kde4/Xsetup is not parsed at all.

Last edited by KlavKalashj (2011-04-06 18:25:40)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]Please help me convert this xrandr script into a xorg.conf

xorg.conf would work (at least it does here with my nvidia card), just have multiple modes.

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KlavKalashj

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Re: [SOLVED]Please help me convert this xrandr script into a xorg.conf

Can you show me yours?

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]Please help me convert this xrandr script into a xorg.conf

Can you show me yours?

Google has plenty of such info, all more useful to you than my NVIDIA-based xorg.conf....

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Re: [SOLVED]Please help me convert this xrandr script into a xorg.conf

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KlavKalashj

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Re: [SOLVED]Please help me convert this xrandr script into a xorg.conf

I know I should not dig up an old thread, but I stumbled upon a solution and I wanted to post it and mark thread as solved, for future reference. What I did was to simply put the script in ~/.xprofile. After that it worked like a charm.