18 Jan
2010
18 Jan
'10
11:19 p.m.
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 16:20:52 -0800, Paul Allen Newell pnewell@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
I tried out a couple of combinations and know that
- the xrandr command does work
- switching video to DVI-I-0 shows the same "kvm lack-of-focus" problem
which xrandr fixed 3) after scanning web and etc/rc.d files, it seemed to me that I should have been able to put this xrandr command in rc.local and have it occur when the boot is finished --- did not work (but, since I have to have the kvm pointed elsewhere to test, not certain if my test is valid)
In init you are not attached to a screen, so you will likely need to add some options to xrandr to specifiy one.
Bruno:
Thanks for info ... I am now pretty certain that "init" is not the right place to try to kick the display.
Paul