On 28 April 2017 at 18:13, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 27/04/17 18:36, Simon Greenwood wrote: > >> I've switched my primary laptop Xubuntu install to Gnome 3 what with all >> this sudden interest in it and I'm quite pleased with how it all hangs >> together, especially with the availability of extensions. There is one >> tweak or extension that I haven't found yet: I frequently plug my laptop >> into a docking station on my desk and Gnome automatically detects all the >> connected displays but I would like to tell it to switch off my laptop >> display and just use my desktop monitors. I currently do this with arandr >> and that works well, but you know, laziness. Any idea where this could be >> managed? >> > > It sounds to me like a udev script would be the sort of thing to achieve > that. A google for udev laptop dock script along with your make and model > of laptop might turn up something useful. > > -- > JimP >
Ah, this page in the wiki gives examples: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaptopLidAndDockScripts so I will have a play to find the state of my dock (it's a Clevo N350DW from PCSpecialist for reference). I had an idea of what I was looking for but wasn't sure where it would be. -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood “Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.”—Alasdair Gray.
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