[Wylug-help] Dual Screen / Xinerama.

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 09:49:59 James Holden wrote:
>
> For dual head cards, as opposed to two separate cards, XRANDR is the
> currently preferred method.
>
> Most modern distros have a GUI tool for this, but you can also do the
> same with the command line tool 'xrandr'.
>
> Try running it from an X terminal, you should get something like this:
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 1440 x 1440
> HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DVI-0 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 408mm x 255mm
>    1440x900       59.9*+   75.0     59.9
>    1280x1024      75.0     60.0
>    etc etc more video modes
>
> The syntax to enable dual displays is relatively simple. Running xrandr
> --help will give you all you need.
>
> Regards,
>
> james
>
> > Cheers
> > Gary

All I had to do was run one command. No installations required at all.

xrandr --output DVI0 --mode 1280x1024  --pos 0x0 \
       --output DVI1 --mode 1280x1024  --pos 1280x0

I then added this as a script in .kde/Autostart and it works every time I log 
in.

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Gary Stainburn
 
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