[Klug-general] VGA Card TV out problems

[Karl Lattimer]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:56 +0100, Karl Buckland wrote:
> Peter Childs wrote:
> >
> > I've had much the same experience under windows so thats nothing 
> > special there. Would like to have a go with multiple monitors under 
> > Linux so does anyone have a good starting point. Somthing simple would 
> > be good.
> >
> > I'm would like to work out if I can get Linux to expand my desktop to 
> > a second screen.
> >
> With an nVidia card this is trivially easy using nvidia-settings. In 
> Ubuntu once you've installed the 'restricted' driver, it'll even happily 
> do desktop effects with multiple monitors too.

Nicely put ;)

The biggest issue I see here is that open office impress doesn't appear
to support multi-monitors in any meaningful way. You can set the
presentation to appear on one or other monitor or both but I can't see
how you show the notes for the active slide on the other monitor. 

I'd say this is a missing feature and really really should be filed as a
bug against open office as its a fairly big oversight on their part.

This is one of the reasons I always use Apple Keynote, well that and the
fact that the effects are downright kick arse!

K,