[Wylug-help] Nvidia twinview

[Chris Davies MBCS]

Folks,

I've been given a nice new shiny laptop for work, onto which I've installed 
Debian with Gnome (as is my preference). I have a 1680x1050 laptop screen and 
a 1600x1200 monitor. I've configured the display (using Nvidia's binary 
driver) for Twinview, which is mostly great.

However, what I'd really like is either of the following schemes, and I cannot 
see how to set them up.

     *	The screens cloned (which I can do) but with the additional criterion 
that the top and bottom menu bar ribbons do not exceed the width of the 
narrower screen (i.e. the external monitor's 1600)

OR

     *	The screens configured so the laptop is to the left of the monitor 
(which I can do) but with the additional criterion that the window manager's 
automatic window placement is always on the monitor (i.e. the right-hand 
display) rather than the laptop


Of course, in either case I would want the display to drop back to covering 
just the laptop screen whenever the monitor wasn't present. This currently 
works well, too.


Is what I want actually possible, and if so, can anyone give me some pointers, 
please?

Thanks,
Chris