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I'm running 10.04 and mythtv as a home DVR. It's working beautifully, except for one thing. In order to save on energy usage I have the computer shut down if it's going to be idle for more than 15 minutes, and automatically boot back up 10 minutes before the next scheduled activity.

The problem is that, if the computer boots with the TV off, it doesn't detect the display. When I turn the TV on it will display absolutely nothing. I must then reboot the computer with the TV on to get it to detect the display correctly so I can watch TV. Of course, I can't reboot the computer if it's in the middle of recording a show - which makes the whole thing a bit frustrating.

How can I set the display settings so they are permanent, rather than detected on boot? Or, how can I have the display re-detected and then restart X via command line so that I don't have to reboot? Or, are there any other suggested solutions?

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Jonathan Eggers
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If the xrand -q answer works, could you create a script to run that and bind it to a hotkey combination? Not a great solution, but it might work as a bandaid. Turn on the TV, hit the key combo, video comes up.

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You can make the system re-detect displays starting the display utilities. Just go to System-> Preferences ->Monitors.

If you prefer to use the command line look at xrandr, likely xrand -q will do, but I can't test it right now.

If you can't see anything you can bind some key combination to the display-settings:

  • Go to System-> Preferences-> Keyboard Shorcuts.
  • Press Add
  • In the new window, in the name box put something like Display Properties.
  • In the command box put gnome-display-properties
  • Click apply, click on the new shortcut, assign it some unused combo like CTRL+F8.

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Thanks to user5232 for the keyboard binding idea.

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