dualhead: turning off a specific head

Michael Pujos pujos.michael at laposte.net
Sun Nov 6 09:49:03 PST 2005


On Sunday 06 November 2005 18:18, Felix Kühling wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 06.11.2005, 17:39 +0100 schrieb Michael Pujos:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have configured dualhead (not xinerama, two independant desktop).
> >
> > screen #0: laptop LCD, 1440x900
> > screen #1: TV, 800x600
> >
> > My problem is that i'd like to turn off the LCD screen when I'm using the
> > TV only to watch videos. If it was an external monitor I could just turn
> > off the power button but there isn't any :(
> > "xset dpms force off" will turn off both screens. Is there any solution
> > to turn off individual heads ? is it planned ?
>
> My Laptop LCD turns off when I close the lid. That's what I always do
> when I watch a movie. Am I thinking too simple?
>

No ! it works ! I didn't even think of it because  I never close the lid and 
thought that it would send the laptop into hibernate mode... 



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