I watch quite a bit of TV / movies on an HDMi monitor which I hook up to my laptop. When I used windows, there was a shortcut Fn + F2 which brought up screen configurations quickly and I could just click on the 'second screen only' option. In Ubuntu, this short-cut works but it just cycles through the different possible configurations, of which the one I want is the 4th so that's a bit annoying. I know this can be done in settings, but this takes longer I than I really want it to. Is there by any chance an app which provides some sort of user interface which would be equivalent of what's found in windows (picture below)?
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While as of right now there's no simple menu for that, one can bind a shortcut to open the display settings.
To do so ,
- go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Custom.
- Press + (plus) button to create new shortcut. You will see a popup asking for Name and Command.
- Name the new shortcut and set
unity-control-center display
as the command. Click ok - When the popup exits, you will see a new entry with the name you set, the keybinding (on the right) will say Disabled . Click on the word Disabled and when it prompts, press the keybinding you want to use for this shortcut. Personally I've set mine to Ctrl Alt D
Once the shortcut has been set, it will be ready to use.