[Gllug] Multi monitor setup

- Tethys tethys at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 17:22:52 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org> wrote:

> I read somewhere that the current X works out the settings on the fly,
> but if you create an xorg file in /etc/X it will use it if its there. Or
> maybe that's just here-say.

It's true. But in my experience, it doesn't do the right thing for
multi-monitor setups, and hand crafting a multi-monitor config that
should work frequently doesn't do the right thing either. Hence my
current reliance on xrandr.

Tet

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