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dual monitor automatic setup



With the latest xorg, there is almost no need for an xorg.conf file.

xrandr is the tool that you'll probably want to use to test different setups

http://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Xrandr


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Jack Coats <jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have a former boss who uses 6 different monitors on one system.  One
> wide screen, one TALL screen and 4 regular.
> All driven by one Linux computer (previously Mandriva/Mandrake,
> currently Ubuntu).  He always forgets to save
> his config so has to re-do it from scratch each time he does a wipe type
> upgrade (like when he went from Mandriva
> to Ubuntu).
>
> Just have to configure each separately, but they all go in the same
> config file.
>
> Contact me offline and I will give you his email if you want to ask some
> specific questions, but this is on his desktop.
>
> I did it years ago on my laptop, but I don't remember what I did.  It
> was on an old RedHat distro.
> I used it with and without a docking station, where the internal display
> was used as a screen, and the
> desktop screen was used ALSO when plugged into the docking station, yes
> they had different
> resolutions, and it just worked.  I did not use different accounts,
> since the config is for the system, and
> not the user.  I also had a docking station at home, with a different
> size monitor on it.
>
>
> ref wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Is it possible to have Xorg server use multiple confs based on my
>> login ?
>>
>> I have a setup at work where I use my laptop with a dell monitor
>> attached to get dual screens. the dell is a 1280x1024 and the laptop is
>> a 1680x1050. This works well.
>>
>> However, when I come home with the laptop I want to plug it into my LG
>> 24" monitor, and have that come up correctly too. This would be
>> 1680x1050 + 1680x1050
>>
>> the laptop has two login accounts, my work account, and my home account.
>> I was wondering if it is possible for the login account to be used to
>> control the Xserver, so that when I am at work and use login 'a' that I
>> get the screen setups correct (along with my work desktop), and then
>> come home, login as user 'b' and get my home desktop, along with correct
>> recognition of my home screens ...
>>
>> or I am just asking for the moon ? :)
>>
>> richard
>>
>>
>>
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