See https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/1638 (not yet in any released version).
Refer to http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html for automatically built packages from git. On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Bart Samwel <bsam...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a multi-monitor setup where I want to use *either* my laptop screen > *or* my external monitor. I've set up an "autoxrandr" script like this, to > enable an external monitor if it's connected, and to enable the laptop panel > otherwise: > > #!/bin/bash > for output in $(xrandr | grep '\Wconnected' | awk '{ print $1 }'); do > if [[ ! $output =~ ^LVDS.*$ ]]; then > other=$output > fi > done > > if [ "$other" != "" ] ; then > xrandr --output $other --auto --primary --output LVDS1 --off > else > xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --primary > fi > > The trouble is that when the laptop is connected to an external screen, and > when I turn the monitor off, it seems that i3 exits. What I want instead is > that it either keeps running so that I can switch the laptop screen on, or > that I can configure it to automatically turn the laptop screen on. > > I have no clue where to debug this. This is on Ubuntu 14.04 and using > lightdm. The lightdm logs say that the session (i3) exits and that's why its > stopping the session. I don't think I can get i3 logs using the instructions > at http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html because both i3 and the X session are > dead after this happens. > > Any idea what I could try here? -- Best regards, Michael
