-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 06:39:44PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > > Hi. > > > > The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes > > white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop > > (not always with success). > > > > Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA monitor does not work > > when X is active. (It works very fine with framebuffer, though.) > > > > How to enable Xorg to use a VGA monitor plugged to a laptop? > > I use a command like this: > > xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA1 --auto
Yes, thanks. To add some "recipe-y" ideas, at work I have a big external monitor. I do this: xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200 \ --output LVDS --mode 1366x768 --below VGA-0 And then I tell my Fvwm that there's more "room": cat <<__END | FvwmCommand -c XineramaSlsScreens 2 1600x1200+0+0 1366x768+0+1200 XineramaSls On Xinerama On __END (of course, the FvwmCommands module must be loaded for that). Hope that inspires some desktop rebels out there ;-) - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlaDoO0ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbAOQCbBCFdaiYQHcKb+J6SkroGh1Aw WgsAniUUF7hKRcyLFdwuljUG3D13OLRg =8uMt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----