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