dispswitch(1)

dispswitch1

Select the video output on a toshiba laptop

Usage

dispswitch [-ieshv]

Overview

dispswitch allows the display device to be changed between internal, external and simultaneous. Without command line options it pops up a small window with three radio buttons. Clicking on an button will select the corresponding output. Alternatively a command line option can be specified to select the output device required.

For laptop models which are unsupport a suitable error message is provided.

Options

-i, --internal

Select the internal LCD display panel.

-e, --external

Select the external VGA output.

-s, --simultaneous

Select both the internal LCD display panel and the external VGA output.

-h, --help

Display a short help message and exit.

-v, --version

Print the version number and exit.

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato).

  1. 2.2–6.0

Bugs

Not really a bug but it only appears to work on Libretto's!

Author

This program was written by Jonathan Buzzard ([email protected]) and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

From toshutils 2.0.1+debian-24 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.