install display and sound apps from MX

[Member stephenbbb]

I would like to project output from an antix laptop to a TV (video and sound) and cannot find a way to do that with aRandr. it is easy on MX with the Display and Sound apps. Please, tell me what are the apps names to install with apt install and if there is anything I need to do for icewm?
thanks
Stephen

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with my laptop I set output to external, i.e. HDMI in BIOS, Important, with a monitor or TV connected
and have video on the external screen, sound can be an issue with HDMI so I connect to headphone output
unmute alsamixer if necessary and enjoy. When I want to use the Laptop elsewhere I set to internal, that
is laptop screen, before shutdown.

A very modern and powerful laptop owned by my daughter can feed both internal and more than one external
source. Depending on device there may be multiple routes to success.

For some some multimedia usage cases the sister distro AV Linux is an excellent choice (best).
Latest version is based on MX.

[Member stephenbbb]

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do you know what is the app called Display in MX?
this laptop is almost new, faster than my business laptop. I had linux mint and then mate on it and had no problem playing video+sound with an hdmi to a 43” roku TV. I could do that even with a much slower laptop running MX (at 480p).
I put antix on the fast laptop, because mint and Mate could not hibernate and was hoping antix would be able to.
it can’t, but the real problem is arandr cannot do what the MX or mate display/monitors apps can do.
cheers

[Forum Admin Dave]

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The apps are xfce4-display-settings and pavucontrol though I am not sure that these will work outside of the xfce desktop (for display) and without pulse audio (with pavucontrol)

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Try something like

xrandr --output VGA-0 --off --output LVDS --off --output HDMI-0 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal

to get video output.

Install pulseaudio and use pavucontrol and select HDMI for the sound output of whatever program you use to play videos.

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