Per-output DPMS?

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 17:33 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 16:26 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: 
> > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 03:55:23PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > Ideally I could set a per-output DPMS setting, although I guess the
> > > same affect could be done with XRandr and turning the output off,
> > > although this takes a few seconds to come back on, and upsets the
> > > screen geometry. What's a sane thing to do in this case? Do I really
> > > want to switch off the output?
> > 
> > If they want the internal display to be turned off when they're docked 
> > then I suspect that they also want the geometry changed.
> 
> And even if not, turning off an output doesn't require changing the
> geometry from the RandR POV.

Although true (kinda), neither the Gnome UI nor xrandr(1) make it
obvious how to achieve this.

- ajax
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