Display settings panel applet

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 21:06:18 UTC 2014


On 21 October 2014 16:20, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 October 2014 10:06, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't remember having the ability to have display settings in the
>> panel, but I have had such problems myself.  For me the solution, was
>> to make sure I power up the monitor a few seconds before waking the
>> PC.  Also I found that if it did wake up incorrectly that if I
>> unplugged the monitor from the laptop for a few seconds then plugged
>> it back in then it would recognise it automatically.
>>
>> Alternatively you could write a script run on wakeup that runs Display Settings.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> The monitor's power button is broken, so it's always on. And it works,
> it's the internal LCD that doesn't.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood, though I see that is what you wrote.
You should be able to force it by configuring an Xorg.conf, but I am
not sure what would then happen if you unplug the monitor (if you ever
do).

Colin




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