[MOSTLY SOLVED] Re: Using xandr -- Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

[Paul Allen Newell]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 16:20:52 -0800,
>   Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>   
>> I tried out a couple of combinations and know that
>> 1) the xrandr command does work
>> 2) switching video to DVI-I-0 shows the same "kvm lack-of-focus" problem 
>> which xrandr fixed
>> 3) after scanning web and etc/rc.d files, it seemed to me that I should 
>> have been able to put this xrandr command in rc.local and have it occur 
>> when the boot is finished ---  did not work (but, since I have to have 
>> the kvm pointed elsewhere to test, not certain if my test is valid)
>>     
>
> In init you are not attached to a screen, so you will likely need to add
> some options to xrandr to specifiy one.
>
>   
Bruno:

Thanks for info ... I am now pretty certain that "init" is not the right 
place to try to kick the display.

Paul