[MOSTLY SOLVED] Re: Using xandr -- Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 16:20:52 -0800,
  Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I tried out a couple of combinations and know that
> 1) the xrandr command does work
> 2) 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.