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Jakob77

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Registered: 2022-11-03

Posts: 65

Calibrating and switching screens

I am using MX-Linux 23.6 Xfce (xfce4-panel) on a Dell Latitute e7240 mostly in a docking station with an external screen.

Sometimes I have problems with the external screen because it falls in too deep a sleep with dark screen or sometimes when I close a beta game from full screen the resolution is all wrong.
In order to be able to fix that quickly when it ocours I am looking for Terminal commands that can calibrate and switch the screens.

At the moment I go with these two that almost fits my setup:

internal on and external off:

xrandr --output DP-1-1 --off --output eDP-1 --mode 1366x768 --rate 60 --gamma 1.0:1.0:1.0 --brightness 1.0

external on and internal off:

xrandr --output eDP-1 --off --output DP-1-1 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60 --gamma 1.0:1.0:1.0 --brightness 1.0

Can I do better.?

At the moment there might be a compatibility problem of a kind because after commands have been used, the intelligent panels won't come out anymore until after the next reboot.

Can I expect the commands to be 100% compatible with Xfce or how can I change them so they will be.?