On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, at 18:50, Dave Woodfall wrote: > Can't you try to detect whether VGA1 is plugged in or not? I use > the following: > > xrandr | grep -q "VGA1 connected" && xrandr --output LVDS1 --off \ > --output VGA1 --primary --auto > > If my VGA is connected then it makes it the primary and turns off my > laptop screen.
Sure, I could do something like that. But that's not what I want. I want to use more than one screen at a time. Also that would not resolve the issues in screen ordering with Xinerama. Thank you for the suggestion though. -- Sebastian