Manage multiple monitors on Lenovo Thinkpads with Ubuntu
I’ve got a Lenovo laptop that I use for work, and it works great with the dock attached to dual monitors, except that there’s no easy way to switch between monitor profiles. So I threw together a pair of scripts to save and load monitor settings.
Docked Lenovo laptop
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The scripts require disper to work:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following lines
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wvengen/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/wvengen/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
Save and exit the file
Update the source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install disper using the following command:
sudo apt-get install disper
You can get the scripts from github:
git clone git@github.com:learntechblog/Lenovo-Monitor-Scripts.git
The scripts will probably work on other laptops as well, although I’ve only tested them with Lenovo laptops.
I have a very similar situation with dual monitors when docked.
What kind of video card does your Thinkpad have? Does this script + Disper work with the ATI proprietary drivers?
How do you trigger the script? Fn-F7?
Thanks in advance!
David
I no longer have the thinkpad (so i can’t cofirm what video card it was), but I can tell you that I didn’t do anything fancy with the video drivers. I do think I had the proprietary drivers enabled, although I’m not 100% sure.
The scripts need to be run from a terminal. To save your settings, you would enter “./save-settings.sh MySavedConfigName”. That saves all the settings in a folder called MySavedConfigName. To load them, you would enter “./load-settings.sh MySavedConfigName”.