02-21-2026, 04:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2026, 07:40 PM by grindstone.)
Edit: Hey ignore that for the moment. I may have grossly over-thought/under-knowledged this. Is it not all you have to do to just Save what you configure as a default config the the arandr tool?
Go upstream
If not, then is not step 2 to just go old-school and kill X and then do the --configure thing to regenerate a custom Xorg.conf? That's not "hotplug", but that gets dicey anyway.
Talk to me when you get a minute. Thanks.
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Thanks for the reply and infomation. Sorry 3 more questions:
- This is HD install or live usb or frugal install or updated remaster running live or ... ???
- If it's a HD or frugal install, is it updated / current and you've done the DSL File Restore and all that?
- does xrandr --listmonitors give only the internal display properly when the external monitor is unplugged?
And we missed the
Thanks for patience.
PS Thanks for the battery indicator solution for flux elsewhere -- great to have someone else posting and fired-up around!
Go upstream
If not, then is not step 2 to just go old-school and kill X and then do the --configure thing to regenerate a custom Xorg.conf? That's not "hotplug", but that gets dicey anyway.
Talk to me when you get a minute. Thanks.
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Thanks for the reply and infomation. Sorry 3 more questions:
- This is HD install or live usb or frugal install or updated remaster running live or ... ???
- If it's a HD or frugal install, is it updated / current and you've done the DSL File Restore and all that?
- does xrandr --listmonitors give only the internal display properly when the external monitor is unplugged?
And we missed the
Code:
xrandr --listprovidersThanks for patience.
PS Thanks for the battery indicator solution for flux elsewhere -- great to have someone else posting and fired-up around!

