On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Msquared wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:07:30PM +0000, Gordon Hay wrote:
Laptop attached to docking station, and through that to an external display.
You might like to experiment with the xrandr command. It can dynamically change resolutions, add and remove extra monitors, etc. A few starting points:
Yeah, I got a little surprise yesterday from xrandr during a presentation on my F8 laptop. I had just disconnected the projector from the external monitor connector on my Dell 640m, and was taking notes in a kmail composer window, when all of a sudden the screen went black and I was returned to the login screen. Good thing kmail keeps what you were doing.
What had essentially happened, I think, is that the screen resolution changed from the 1024x768 it was using while the projector was connected to the native widescreen resolution; this apparently triggered a logout or similar.