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Thank you. As I see this is the perfect and the only working solution at |
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this moment |
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KDE-4-3 monitor settings applet has a section "dual display" or |
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something similar, but thinks I don't have a dual capable hardware :) so |
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maybe sometimes in the future someone will implement this feature better |
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and makes it more user friendly. |
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Laszlo |
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> Hello, |
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> you can achieve this with xrandr. |
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> I have a similar setup and i run the following comand to set things up. |
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> xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto --left-of LVDS1 --output LVDS1 --auto |
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> |
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> You get an overview over your devices and their names by typing xrandr |
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> as user. |
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> I also do not have a xorg.conf but let xorg do the config by itself. |
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> |
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> So when i am on laptop only, xorg finds the right settings for me. If i |
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> am at home using the second screen, i wrote that command and some other |
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> stuff in a small script and linked that in a bin directory. So i type |
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> "dualscreen" and the script sets things up for me. |
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> |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto --left-of LVDS1 --output LVDS1 --auto |
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> display -window root /home/smash/wallpaper/Feuersbrunst_dual.jpg |
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> So the result looks like this: |
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> http://www.smash-net.org/bilder/loki_20091010.png |
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> Regards, |
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> Norman |
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