On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Peter King <peter.king@utoronto.ca> wrote:
I have an annoying problem. I run a two-monitor setup with xrandr, one monitor in portrait and the other in landscape mode. I set xrandr in the .xinitrc file, and it works well. The only problem is that when I quit the window manager (in this case goomwwm), the screen goes to black and I'm pretty sure I never return to the console (blind typing produces no results). The computer itself keeps running; I can ssh in. Any advice or suggestions? I can't quite figure how to turn xrandr *off* once it's been set in .xinitrc. Oh, and if I boot without xrandr, I go straight back to the console when I quit X (as it should).
I don't really know how to modify xrandr but I can tell you that part of your problem is that xrandr does NOT like multi-monitor setups. This I found out the hard way when I tried to setup my multi-monitor system. I had to not enable xrandr as part of my solution. Perhaps some time in the future the authors of xrandr will update their solution to better reflect the real world. Dee