dual monitor automatic setup

[Greg Rundlett]

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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