[OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

Thorsten Heit thorsten.heit at vkb.de
Tue Feb 21 12:23:13 UTC 2012


Hi,

> It might not be very useful for a laptop, because when it says "save to 
> file", you really are supposed to save it to Xorg.conf and then move it 
> to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot.

Why reboot? It's enough to simply move/copy the saved file to 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout and let the X server restart itself to present 
you the login window again, but now using the new configuration...


Regards

Thorsten


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