Per-output DPMS?

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Mon May 3 08:33:18 PDT 2010


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.


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