Right now, all you can do is enable/disable displays and set their resolution/rotation. You have to pray that it sets a display up properly (does the user want a second screen mirrored? to the right, or the left? something else?) This really needs improvements. A good reference would be the tool arandr, which allows a lot of freedom, yet stays very lightweight: http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/
Some work has already been done in 4.11.x. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7465 ***