[xmonad] Automatic switch to external monitor?

[Tom Davis]

On Jan 25, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Jesper Reenberg <jesper.reenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 26 January 2012 00:40, Jesper Reenberg <jesper.reenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 24 January 2012 21:42, Tom Davis <tom at recursivedream.com> wrote:
> I'm sure there's some way to do this via ACPI or whatever, but I'm not
> familiar enough with it to know. Basically i need an action for "docked"
> that will try running "dock on" and see what happens. Any thoughts?
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> I have hacked some really nasty stuff together, hooking (un)dock events through an udev rule, which runs a shell script that exports my users xauthority and display settings and then tests whether or not the dock is present (thus determining if it was a dock og undock, as doing this in the udev rules with attributes didn't always work), and then use xrandr to set the monitors as i wan't. However most of this is IBM specific (i think).
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Well, I *am* using a Thinkpad/dock, but I just wonder why it no longer "magically" works... But I'd hack stuff to make it!

> And once more, such that everyone gets it (I'm used to the mail going to the list when just hitting reply). 
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> Reenberg
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