dualhead: turning off a specific head

Felix Kühling fxkuehl at gmx.de
Sun Nov 6 09:18:41 PST 2005


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?

Regards,
  Felix

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