dual monitors

[Tom Metro]

Stephen Jahl wrote:
> How is the positioning of your monitors configured? The nvidia-xsettings
> app allows you to choose things like 'Left of', 'Right of', and
> 'absolute'. I've seen some anomalies on my computer when either one of
> the monitors is set to 'absolute' positioning.

I specified "right of" when configuring the new primary display, but
after merging the changes into xorg.conf and rebooting, it has changes
to Absolute. I figured that was normal.


I have noticed that if I try to take a screen shot the image is of the
entire desktop spanning the two monitors (which deviates from the
workspace model I previously described), with black pixels filling in
the region left by one of the monitors having fewer vertical pixels.


I haven't looked into the bug reports for OOo, but at least one of the
apps having problems (DockBarX) had an existing report describing the
same symptom I observed on a dual-monitor setup. So at least some of
what I'm observing isn't unique to my setup.

 -Tom

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