Posts tagged ‘lxde’

LXDE and multiple screens: replacing lxrandr with a script

When using Gnome3 I was really impressed with the support for multiple screens. Then I switched to LXDE and was very disappointed in that desktop’s support for multiple screens. In fact so disappointed that I sat down and read the man-page for ‘randr’ and hacked up the following script:

#! /bin/bash
 
cmd=$1; shift
 
case $cmd in
    on)
        # turn on VGA1, auto-select size, right of laptop screen
        xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1
        ;;
    off)
        xrandr --output VGA1 --off
        ;;
    list)
        xrandr
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Commands: on, off, list"
esac

In my mind it’s vastly more usable than ‘lxrandr’ :)

LXDE and xmonad

A few days ago I create the page on LXDE and Xmonad on the Xmonad area of the Haskell Wiki. It’s very short, mainly due to it being very simple to set it up. My config is a bit bare-bones at the moment though and I’m sure others have more to contribute.

And yes! This means I’ve left the Gnome camp. Quite possibly for good.