Separate brightness/power-saving settings for multiple monitors
- by MariusMatutiae
At home, I connect my laptop to an external monitor. Under Linux X server, it works perfectly.
Occasionally I watch a movie on the external monitor. When I do, I would like to fold the laptop shut, and just relax. This however triggers my settings for dimming the screen after 10 minutes of inactivity, which in turn extends to the external monitor.
I know I could solve the problem by setting dimming to "Never", but this is a waste, causes the laptop to overheat, and is bad for the normal laptop use. How can I set the power saving/brightness specs for the external monitor, independently of the onboard one?
I run Debian or Arch, under KDE.