Hello there lxde-people, I've just joined the mailing list to ask for a little help about the feature mentioned in the subject or for advancing my proposal, lacking an already existing solution.
I use LXDE on Lubuntu since (I think) 12.x an a Dell XPS13 and I like it very much. Moving to and fro my office I often plug and unplug an external monitor and it's a bit boring to manually run a command to enable both or return to a single desktop. There are a lot of guides out there to create desktop buttons, polling scripts on xrandr and stuff like to partially automate the switch. What I wanted is something a bit different, I didn't want something that polls, I wanted something that is triggered. OSX and Unity already have (I see my colleagues at work) this utility under the hood, although I don't know how it works. So after some searching I've put up a script that executes an automatic monitor switch when an external source is plugged or unplugged. The switch is triggered by the relevant UDEV kernel event, so there's no polling: https://github.com/apiraino/autorandr First question, did I miss by any chance a tool to do that? I'd be glad to switch from my homemade solution to something more reliable. Second question, if the answer to the previous question is "no", would LXDE be interested in having me provide a wrapping to this script in some kind of UI so that a user could: - use randr to define two or more monitor setups - install all the needed stuff to automatically switch monitor configuration like I did. I could work on such a simple tool when my spare time allows. I'd be superhappy to have your comments and suggestions on the matter! Thanks, Antonio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
