temporary dual monitor setup

[Bas Spitters]

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 13:20, Marco wrote:
> How can I assign key shortcuts to switch to another display setup? If I am
> on the road I need to switch the setup to only use the laptop display. This
> is even more important as the KDE panel is only displayed on the external
> Monitor.
>
> It would be great if I could do it without a reboot. But a the moment I
> don't know how to do it at all. The settings are in xorg.conf. Can I define
> different profiles there? How could I switch them?

I would be interested in a real solution, too. 
For now I use two different xorg.conf files: xorg.conf.1 xorg.conf.2
and use soft links to them. When I want to switch I change the links and 
restart the x-server (ctrl-alt-backspace). Rebooting is not necessary.

Bas