You can always do "xrandr --auto", but naturally you have less control over
what happens. The man page will tell you what exactly this will do.
Regards
Ingo
On January 23, 2019 5:40:21 PM GMT+01:00, "Luís Moreira de Sousa"
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
thank you all for the replies. I often connect my laptop to monitors or
beamers I haven't connected before. Using the methods suggested below,
I would need to use xrandr to identify the monitor name and resolution
and then issue the right command to mirror. This is a bit of an
overkill. I am coming from Unity, and in that DE all of that is done
automatically by the Settings application. Isn't there some similar
application for i3?
Thank you.
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On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:10, Guillaume Maudoux (Layus)
<layus.on@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
May I suggest using arandr in a first step. This gives a good GUI tounderstand what theses xrandr commands do.
arandr, and set them to the same resolution.
You will see that to mirror displays you need to overlap them in
setups.
Afterwards, you can write tailored xrandr bindings for your preffered
configuration to a shortcut. Examples:
-- Layus.
On 21/01/19 20:43, Matt Ball wrote:
I typically use xrandr to switch configurations, and then bind each
--auto"
# Turn on just one screen:
bindsym $mod+comma exec "xrandr --output eDP1 --off --output DP1
--output DP1 --mode 1920x1080"
bindsym $mod+Control+comma exec "xrandr --output eDP1 --auto
1920x1080"
# Select a particular resolution
bindsym $mod+period exec "xrandr --fb 1920x1080 --output eDP1 --mode
names returned by xrandr.
# This will automatically activate all monitors
bindsym $mod+slash exec "xrandr --auto"
Make sure to replace eDP1, DP1, or HDMI3 with the actual monitor
monitor on and the laptop monitor off, if the laptop is locked and I
One issue I run into is that if I have my laptop docked with a main
undock it, the screensaver doesn't turn the laptop monitor on, so I
have to unlock it with no visual feedback.
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:10 PM Luís Moreira de Sousa
monitor, for instance to have a presentation. In other DEs this is
Hi all,
I would like to mirror the screen of a laptop with an external
usually provided by an Fn key combination, but i3 ignores such signals.
And is it possible to complete switch off one of the monitors?
Thank you.
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