From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PDkJP-0005m4-33 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:52:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26C30E077E; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00AFE077E for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb1 with SMTP id 1so1077389gwb.40 for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:51:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=cp3EGI/9Sdei5PERHp3Cz7QE+nLxhHybcqRYFUVjqro=; b=IueFVPtE6PXhSValO09M7RqoGsN6lYyokIixngOxdT8EQrDNtJ4FM+vwL+I2mzXnj2 NbST1+coDZe1LA/LlmhLl5e01nrr3curewlxUubsDu3pioj0UmTgCrKYUd6lIa7igKCT yePZLG842wRWIk3G/ciRQJ9WVp9WRYWYy41y0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=rCgF9oMqa7JvyZWfeTCwOjQ5JDbuM//73nzZBcsOTGnczy76TFPnDmoivfmB2PgR1u 35M9olIDHbfqMuF68xM3W3OIumKNGBu5tX+DtmAYlUxNVR54Ly6BB7yNgtNEPTlWr+jZ evIEhQ5rmyCY5whIHiTFhRbFIVMwoW2zIbuNQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.186.199 with SMTP id ct7mr739241icb.291.1288817491197; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:51:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.175.136 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:51:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:51:31 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors From: Mick To: gentoo-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: bbb7dabe-6646-401c-89c5-573587cc2a1b X-Archives-Hash: 24abe76a6fde36f35aeb0301aa31bf65 Hi All, I am trying to set up two monitors, but have next to no experience on the subject. Last time I set up two monitors on a machine was years ago and I recall using xinerama and xorg.conf. Now I do not use xorg.conf and I'm still running x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.7-r1 Upon booting up this machine showed both monitors with the same resolution and cloning each other. $ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1920 x 1920 VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 359mm x 287mm 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9 720x400 70.1 DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm 1920x1080 60.0 + 1280x1024 75.0 60.0* 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 59.9 720x400 70.1 To change the new larger monitor connected on the DVI port, I ran: $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto and that gave me: $ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1920 VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 359mm x 287mm 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9 720x400 70.1 DVI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm 1920x1080 60.0*+ 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 59.9 720x400 70.1 Is there some invocation to allow me to set this up like MSWindows does? I mean, in WinXP all desktop icons and toolbar stays at the bottom of the DVI monitor. The VGA monitor on the left just shows the desktop background, but has no toolbar or desktop icons. The user can however drag application windows from the DVI monitor to the VGA monitor, seamlessly between the two. On this machine I can't - they are just clones of each other ... -- Regards, Mick