[Wylug-help] Laptop External Display

[Smylers]

John Hodrien writes:

> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Smylers wrote:
> 
> > Presumably there's a way of making GDM/Gnome/X/whatever actually
> > think the logical desktop area is a different size?
> 
> The xrandr extension is fairly standard now, and lets you do this.  In
> Fedora you have System/Preferences/Screen Resolution, which should
> list all modes made available by xorg.  I've no idea if that's a gnome
> default or a Fedora one.

Thanks; I'll take a look when I'm next at that computer.  I don't
actually _have_ a desire to change this, except in a clutching-at-straws
way of something else to arbitrarily fiddle with because some folks have
suggested resolution might be something to do with the problems.

> > This happens consistently on both the built-in and external displays
> > -- and regardless of the zoom level I still got the behaviour of
> > either display being correct on its own but the external one being
> > wriggly if the built-in one was also on.
> 
> It's this 'wriggly' that I don't like.

And indeed for showing a video that won't be good, so as things
currently are I'll settle for not having anything on my screen while
projecting the video.

If I manage to get Xinerama working then while playing music I'd like
the media player controls on my screen and ProjectM's output full-screen
on the projector -- in which case I doubt a little wigglyness would
matter too much, given the nature of the output:

  http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.net/shots.html

Smylers