I know in Windows holding the windows key + p can help. It brings up a
menu to share extend the desktop. Thus u can turn then on if u want to
extend and off when u just want one screen for comp and other for say
telly.
I am sure there must be something like that available in Linux.
Think projector
On 29 Jun 2014 10:10, "Dr Adam John Trickett" <adam.trickett@???>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently run my desktop system with two monitors, the original Iiyama on
> DVI-D and a cheap Hanns-G on the HDMI. The Iiyama is the primary and the
> one I
> use all the time, the Hanns-G is only required some of the time.
>
> As far as I can tell X and xrandr is able to detect both devices when they
> are
> plugged in but can't actually tell me when they are switched on or off. So
> if I
> only have one monitor powered on (even at the mains) xrandr reports both
> present and hence X and KDE think that there are two monitors in situ.
>
> I can write a small script to manually change from a 1 to 2 monitor
> set-up,
> which isn't a problem, I just wondered if anyone knows how to detect if
> there
> is a monitor plugged in but switched off?
>
> Debian testing
> Nvidia graphics and driver
>
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> Overton, HANTS, UK
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