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Small Suggestion - willz06jw - 02-18-2026

Thanks for building DSL 2024!

Here are a few more ideas and issues I have had.

1.  Polish spam-bots on the forum -- can you please zap these guys?  I get emails from every time one of these things post.

2.  It is pretty manual to change the screen timeout.  I wish this was part of the menu GUI system

3.  I have a laptop hooked to an external monitor, even after disabling the laptop monitor through Control Centre/Session/Set Screen Resolution (ARandR) the wallpaper image I selected is stretched in a strange way.  I wish there was a more robust wallpaper GUI to stretch and center the image I select from Control Center/Choose Wallpaper.

4.  When I reboot, the laptop goes back to the laptop screen.  I wish it remembered what to do when the laptop is connected to an external monitor.

Thanks for your work,
Will

RE: Small Suggestion - grindstone - 02-19-2026

Please tell us you're not running nvidia drivers...(only half joking). 

Sorry if you've already posted what you're running, but get us the results of each of these if you can:

Code:
inxi -G


Code:
xrandr --listmonitors


Code:
xrandr --listproviders


Code:
xrandr


Code:
sudo lshw -c video

And is this HDMI? Peek through your dmesg and see if there are more clues (like maybe firmware not loading for the approp driver or something).

Try searching upstream for screen timeout.

Thanks.

RE: Small Suggestion - willz06jw - 02-21-2026

Thanks for your help Grindstone

Yea no nvidia drivers on this thing -- it's basically a larger netbook built at the end of that trend cycle
(HP Pavilion x360 11-n010dx)

Here are the output:
inxi -G

Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Chicony HP Truevision HD camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 1680x1050~60Hz
2: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD
Graphics (BYT)
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr


xrandr --listmonitors

Monitors: 1
0: +*HDMI-1 1680/434x1050/270+0+0 HDMI-1



xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1366x768 59.99 + 39.99
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 60.04 60.00
960x720 60.00
928x696 60.05
896x672 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
700x525 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 60.02
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
684x384 59.88 59.85
640x400 59.88 59.98
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
512x384 60.00
512x288 60.00 59.92
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
320x180 59.84 59.32
VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 434mm x 270mm
1680x1050 59.88*+
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 60.00
800x600 75.00 60.32
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08



sudo lshw -c video
[sudo] password for willz06jw:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 0e
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 resolution=1680,1050
resources: irq:106 memory:90000000-903fffff memory:80000000-8fffffff ioport:2050(size=8) memory:c0000-dffff

RE: Small Suggestion - grindstone - 02-21-2026

Edit:  Hey ignore that for the moment.  I may have grossly over-thought/under-knowledged this.  Is it not all you have to do to just Save what you configure as a default config the the arandr tool?

Go upstream 

If not, then is not step 2 to just go old-school and kill X and then do the --configure thing to regenerate a custom Xorg.conf?  That's not "hotplug", but that gets dicey anyway.  

Talk to me when you get a minute.  Thanks.  
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Thanks for the reply and infomation.  Sorry 3 more questions:

- This is HD install or live usb or frugal install or updated remaster running live or ... ???
- If it's a HD or frugal install, is it updated / current and you've done the DSL File Restore and all that?
- does xrandr --listmonitors give only the internal display properly when the external monitor is unplugged?

And we  missed the
Code:
xrandr --listproviders


Thanks for patience. 

PS  Thanks for the battery indicator solution for flux elsewhere -- great to have someone else posting and fired-up around!

RE: Small Suggestion - willz06jw - 02-27-2026

$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x44 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting

It's an HD install, and I have done the sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade. I am not sure about the DSL File Restore.

when the external monitor is plugged in, and the normal monitor is disabled via "DSL Control Centre/Set Screen Resolution (ARandR)" it only lists the external monitor.
$ xrandr --listmonitors
Monitors: 1
0: +*HDMI-1 1680/434x1050/270+0+0 HDMI-1

when the external monitor is plugged in but disabled via "DSL Control Centre/Set Screen Resolution (ARandR)" it only lists the internal monitor.
$ xrandr --listmonitors
Monitors: 1
0: +*eDP-1 1366/256x768/144+0+0 eDP-1

When both are active I get this:
$ xrandr --listmonitors
Monitors: 2
0: +*HDMI-1 1680/434x1050/270+0+0 HDMI-1
1: +eDP-1 1366/256x768/144+1680+0 eDP-1


When I reboot, both screens are then active (even though I left it with the internal monitor disabled). The place where I enter my login and password are on the (now active and primary) internal monitor.

RE: Small Suggestion - grindstone - 02-27-2026

Thanks for detailed response.  Did you Save config, too, yet (link at antixforum)? 

control center -> session -> arandr 
-> outputs -> virtual1 -> resolution -> (specific res)
-> layout -> save as -> ~/.screenlayout/default.sh 

Middle of main menu for file restore.  

   
Gets you everything that didn't fit on CD.  SHould have been done before update & upgrade Sad  Pretty big deal.  Man  pages.  Firmware...lots of stuff.  You might get away with the restore (just an untar, basically, _then_ update && upgrade. 



Will need time to get back to this later today.  Thanks again for hanging in there and for helping around here.