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I've got an eeePC with a really tiny monitor, so whenever I go (home, faculty, parent's home, friend's home, ...) I attach it to any external monitor I can find.

If it matters my system is like this:

  • Archlinux
  • Linux 2.6.36
  • Xorg 7.6
    • X server 1.9.2
  • Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (fully accelerated by intel modules)

When I boot up the system, it uses the integrated monitor (LVDS1) only, and I have to manually manually switch to the external monitor (VGA1) using xrandr.

Is it possible to configure my Xorg (or whatever) so that it uses the VGA1 output if present?

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Sure. Here's how I did it in my /~.xinitrc file:

xrandr -q | grep "VGA1 connected" && \
  xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050 --left-of LVDS1

This assumes you start your X via "startx" or that you select to run the custom xinit script at gdm/kdm/whatever. You can also modify this in a way that your preferred mode is first filtered out from the xrandr output.

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