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Automatically change resolution when not in dock

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1336 / 1 Year ago, thu, january 26, 2023, 7:42:54

I have Ubuntu 11.04 (yep, I know it's old news) on my Lenovo W520. At home, I have a dock with dual monitors. I have a pretty decent setup - things work almost perfectly (hence the reason I'm reluctant to upgrade... that and I'm not 100% sold on Unity).

Anyway, the only annoyance I have is that when I'm on travel, I use the laptop screen. When I un-dock the laptop, I need to manually go into nvidia x-server settings and change the resolution from 'Auto' to 1920x1200, or it will think I have two screens, and my mouse pointer will be able to go way off the left side of the screen. This isn't a big deal, but I need to do it every time I restart the x-server (so if I reboot, or have to kill it, etc...)

What would be really nice is if there was a way for it to automatically detect whether or not there is external monitors (which it seems to do already), and switch into the mode I select, depending on which monitors are connected. Is there any way to accomplish this? I've posted my xorg.conf file for reference.

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings

# nvidia-settings:  version 270.29  (buildd@allspice)  Fri Feb 25 14:42:07 UTC 2011



# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

# nvidia-xconfig:  version 275.19  ([email protected])  Tue Jul 12 18:35:38 PDT 2011

#Section "Monitor"

#    Identifier     "Monitor1"

#    VendorName     "Lenovo"

#    ModelName      "ThinkpadLCD"

#    #HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0

#    #VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0

#    #Option         "DPMS"

#EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier     "Layout0"

    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0

    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

    Option         "Xinerama" "0"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier     "Mouse0"

    Driver         "mouse"

    Option         "Protocol" "auto"

    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"

    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"



        # generated from default

    Identifier     "Keyboard0"

    Driver         "kbd"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

    Identifier     "Monitor0"

                   VendorName     "Unknown"

    ModelName      "DELL U2410"

    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0

    VertRefresh     56.0 - 76.0

    Option         "DPMS"

EndSection



Section "Device"

    Identifier     "Device0"

    Driver         "nvidia"

    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"

    BoardName      "Quadro 1000M"

    Option         "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

EndSection



Section "Screen"



# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+120, DFP-6: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+120, DFP-5: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+419, DFP-5: nvidia-auto-select +3840+0, DFP-6: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-5: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-6: 1920x1200 +1920+0"

    Identifier     "Screen0"

    Device         "Device0"

    Monitor        "Monitor0"

    DefaultDepth    24

    Option         "NoLogo" "True"

    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"

    Option         "TwinView" "1"

    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-5: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0, DFP-6: 1920x1200 +0+0"

    SubSection     "Display"

        Depth       24

    EndSubSection

EndSection

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answered 1 Year ago ugeeport · Accepted Answer

Install hwinfo if you don't already have it.

Now, run $hwinfo --monitor or just $hwinfo

DO NOT connect it to the dock now. Reboot, choose your favourite resolution and run

$ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.undock

DOCK the system now, and reboot. Choose your new favourite resolution and run

$ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.dock

Make a script file and add it to autorun:

    # Check if system is docked or undocked and use correct xorg.conf file.

    # <lm_name> is name of laptop monitor

    DOCKED="`hwinfo --monitor | grep "<lm_name>" | wc -l`" 

    # Next line is for debugging

    # echo $DOCKED > /root/docked-state.txt 

    if [[ $DOCKED = "0" ]] 

    then 

    cp /etc/X11/xorg.dock /etc/X11/xorg.conf 

    else 

    cp /etc/X11/xorg.undock /etc/X11/xorg.conf 

    fi 

    # End of dock-undock script