xrandr before logging in

Michael R. Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Thu May 29 23:22:58 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 22:24 +0200, Kilian Rambach wrote:
> Hi there,
> I want to use xrandr to switch one of the two connected monitors off as
> soon as kdm has started, before someone logged in. (I couldn't manage it
>    with some options in xorg.conf)

...

> So how can I execute xrandr before someone logged in?

You'll need to tweak the KDM config to run your script when X is
started.

I use GDM, but there's /etc/gdm/Init/Default which I believe is run when
it starts up.

You may want to look at the KDM setup program: 
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-workspace/kdm/kdm-scripts.html#kdmrc-xsetup

> Thanks for any help
> Cheers
> Kilian
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike/
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