LXDE and multiple screens: replacing lxrandr with a script
- Magnus Therning
When using Gnome3 I was really impressed with the support for multiple screens. Then I switched to LXDE and was very disappointed in that desktop’s support for multiple screens. In fact so disappointed that I sat down and read the man-page for ‘randr’ and hacked up the following script:
#! /bin/bash
cmd=$1; shift
case $cmd in
)
on# turn on VGA1, auto-select size, right of laptop screen
xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1
;;
)
offxrandr --output VGA1 --off
;;
)
listxrandr
;;
)
*echo "Commands: on, off, list"
esac
In my mind it’s vastly more usable than ‘lxrandr’ :)