After an interesting read about the inner working of xrandr I started reading the manpage. Got the version of my xrandr and got further info about my system. And then I was lost in a swell of info and possibilities. My problem with monitors is following: I am using as my main monitor a Philips 196V3L, 18,5" 13766x768. For movies and such I would like to use my television set with a bigger screen via HDMI. The TV has one HDMI plug which is connected with a box from the TV provider. If I disconnect the tv from the tv box and plug it in on my motherboard I can use HDMI as my second monitor. That is not feasible for daily use. I found myself a HDMI cable with one HDMI connector and on the other end three colored (green, blue and red) video plugs. When I plug this cable into the HDMI plug of the motherboard and the three colored video plugs int the TV set I expected to receive a signal on the TV set. The television set is only showing the input "component" with these three plugs inserted. With xrandr I read HDMI-1 and -2 disconnected. Also DP1 and 2 are not connected. How can I force a connection with the HDMI cable and would that change anything? -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20170913 Qt: 5.9.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.37.0 kf5-config: 1.0 KDE Plasma: 5.10.5 plasmashell 5.10.5 Kernel: 4.13.1-1-default Linux User 183145 working on a Pentium IV . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org