Monthly Archives: October 2022

Getting external screen to work on Lenovo Ideapad 1 laptop (Debian based systems)

External screen might not work out of the box with Lenovo Ideapad 1 laptops.

The following steps were performed on PostX Gnu/Linux (based on Debian 11) to remedy the situation.

  • Remove nomodest entry from grub config file:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub

  • Reboot the system.
  • Install arandr to identify & setup the (external) display:

sudo apt install -y arandr

  • Save configuration to an sh file(screen.sh here) and make it autostart. Openbox as an example:

nano .config/openbox/autostart

bash screen.sh &
exec openbox

Multiple Python programs upgraded to next versions

Power-Manager QT is upgraded to support systemctl commands. It has “Are you sure” dialogs on every entry now. https://github.com/postman721/Power-Manager-QT

Vol2x-Reloaded is upgraded. It gains awareness of system sound & microphone levels: https://github.com/postman721/Vol2X-Reloaded

Albix (Pyqt5+Pygame music player). Is upgraded to next version: https://github.com/postman721/Albix