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-====== DUAL MONITORS ======+====== Dual Monitors ======
 Known to work on Slackware 14.1 and XFCE Known to work on Slackware 14.1 and XFCE
  
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 +====== Cool Switching Scripts ======
 +Here's a script I wrote to toggle between extended dual monitors and a single monitor-
 +<code>
 +#!/bin/bash
 +vPRIMARYMONITOR="DVI-I-0" # <--- CHANGE THIS.  Find using "xrandr -q"
 +vLOC="--right" # <--- Change this if you want the second monitor in another position. CHOICES: --above  --below  --left  --right
 +vEXT=$(xrandr -q | grep " connected" | grep -v $vPRIMARYMONITOR | awk '{print $1}' | head -n 1 )
 +vOnOff=$(xrandr -q | grep $vEXT | sed 's/primary//g' | awk '{print $3}'| sed 's/[0-9]*x[0-9]*+[0-9]*+[0-9]*/ON/g' )
 +[ "$vOnOff" != "ON" ] && vOnOff="OFF"
 +if [ "$vOnOff" = "OFF" ]; then
 +        /usr/bin/xrandr --output $vEXT --auto $vLOC $vPRIMARYMONITOR
 +        else
 +        /usr/bin/xrandr --output $vEXT --off
 +        fi
 +
 +</code>
 +
 +Script to toggle a mirrored monitor-
 +<code>
 +#!/bin/bash
 +vPRIMARYMONITOR="DVI-I-0" # <--- CHANGE THIS.  Find using "xrandr -q"
 +vEXT=$(xrandr -q | grep " connected" | grep -v $vPRIMARYMONITOR | awk '{print $1}' | head -n 1 )
 +vOnOff=$(xrandr -q | grep $vEXT | sed 's/primary//g' | awk '{print $3}'| sed 's/[0-9]*x[0-9]*+[0-9]*+[0-9]*/ON/g' )
 +[ "$vOnOff" != "ON" ] && vOnOff="OFF"
 +if [ "$vOnOff" = "OFF" ]; then
 + /usr/bin/xrandr --output $vEXT --auto
 + else
 + /usr/bin/xrandr --output $vEXT --off
 + fi
 +</code>
  
  
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