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I'm bored with dual-screen on GNU/Linux, it really has to have a graphic configuration, and better features.
I would like to move windows from a screen to another, but when I maximize I need it to be in a single screen.
Update: Xrandr GUI blog post by Bryce Harrington
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dwolsten wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 23:26
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It seems to work fine for me on Kubuntu.
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michaelw wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 23:40
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This is a configuration issue on your part. I find the dual screen support better in GNU/Linux than any other OS - but only once you have it configured correctly.
Your description is not of a quantifiable Idea, if you require support please use the official ubuntu support channels.
http://help.ubuntu.com
http://forums.ubuntu.com
https://answers.launchpad.net
irc://irc.ubuntu.com/#ubuntu
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shad0w_walker wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 00:36
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Hopefully a lot of dual screen issues will start being worked out when 8.04 comes out. Hot plugging support would make things a lot more likable. I generally flick my second screen on and off as needed and restarting X for that is a pain.
When it's going nicely with hotplug I imagine little finishing touches and better GUIs will come along with the easier initial setup.
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deadowl wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 00:53
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michaelw, seriously... ALL distros use just about the same software, its the configuration part that separates the good from the bad.
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AusIV wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 01:32
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It really needs to be more easily configurable. In my experience the System > Administration > Screens & Graphics program doesn't seem to do anything at all, but if you know your way around Xorg.conf and Xrandr, you can do quite a lot. It would be nice if there were a GUI that did that effectively.
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AaronPeterson wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:22
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this is a non trivial problem, and multi screen is important for me.
I don't think you're bored... maybe frustrated.
I messed with dual screen for weeks to make it work on one of my boxes (gentoo though, and years ago) Then some of the 3d functions didn't work! now it's probably much better,
anyway, so many programs have to be made aware it's not funny. Ditch Gnome and go to KDE 4
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johnpro wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:54
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I am not a fan of Mac computers but there is one function that they have that beats all other operating systems. This is the plug n play and hot plug support. I would love to just be able to connect an external monitor or projector to my laptop and that it would just configure it self and work!
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smenjas wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:56
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I agree, and so do the Ubuntu developers. They did their best to get this into Gutsy, but X.Org wasn't ready. This will be supported in Hardy.
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hoosfoos wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 04:25
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I'm struggling with this issue right now and have on every machine I've installed on with dual monitors. Also random updates, distribution upgrades or small changes in configuration frequently break the whole delicate balance.
I wouldn't use the word bored, that makes it sound too easy, I'd say pain in the ass.
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hackel wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 04:51
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The major bottleneck here it seems is graphics drivers and their support for hardware dual-head. The ATI binary drivers are awful in this regard. I finally discovered how to enable the 2nd CRT without restarting X (using aticonfig), but sometimes it freezes the computer. It also does not automagically change the XV overlay, this must be done manually and my success is around 50% with this operation. So I have to play videos without XV support. None of these things would be obvious to a newbie. I most often plug my LCD TV into my laptop to watch movies, and very much wish this all worked better and was more automated.
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Statik1 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 05:24
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Why just dual? I run 3 monitors at work with a jacked up version of xorg.conf. I hope when and if this option gets put in to Ubuntu they give us the option to have more then just 2 monitors.
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xyblor wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 05:33
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After installing Gutsy, I spent HOURS trying to get dual-display working, with only partial success. There needs to be a better gui for this. Also, X wants to start both LCD's at the same resolution even though it knows they have different preferred modes (is this fixed in later versions of xserver?)
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afuchs wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 05:35
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As with hackel, I want to be able to plug my laptop into my TV without having to reconfigure and restart X.
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westers wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 05:56
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This is probably the biggest issue I have with Ubuntu (Linux in general). I have an LCD panel at home (VGA cable recognized as CRT), and LCD panel at work (DVI cable recognized as DFP) and when I travel who knows what kind of projector. Here are a few behaviors I'd like to see changed/added. ***As a reference for below 2nd display device could be a CRT, LCD (VGA and/or DVI) or projector.***
XOrg
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1) If I boot my computer without a 2nd display device connected then my laptop display should be the primary display device. This would get you out of a situation where you boot and cant see anything because X is rendering everything on the second device which is no longer connected (only in cases where you prev. setup a second display device and forgot to change you xorg file back).
2) If I boot my computer with a 2nd display device connected then my laptop display should be primary and the 2nd device secondary (where I can choose to clone, span or have separate screens). I can understand the assumption that some laptop user dock their computer and want to use their nice monitor display in place of their laptops. These days with better laptop displays I see most people using both with laptop display as primary.
3) If I connect a 2nd display while running X then I should be able to run a config app OR press a key to toggle the 2nd display device without restarting X.
4) Most second display devices are recognized at 640x480 and often the EEID info isnt correct or doesn't exist.
Twinview (nvidia)
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1) I dont like how my gnome panels span both monitors (I like my panels to auto expand
Gnome
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1) Resolution changes (spanning included) hose up the icon layouts when moving from larger to smaller
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Ned wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 07:28
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I'm also using twinview at work and no 2nd device at home : each time i'm at home, X still detects/work with a very wide screen (width of both monitors), while nVidiaSettings detects that 2nd monitor is off :
- my windows open where there sould be the 2nd screen,
- the menu bar doesn't always display its buttons (it seems stretched as if on both monitors)
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Maulwurfsauge wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:44
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Very good idea.
REALY working hotplugging and graphical configuration for dual screens is maybe the one thing that I missed the most in Ubuntu.
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jves wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 09:05
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The dual-screen function isn't working well when your configuration changes all the time. I use a Dell XPS laptop with Kubuntu and docking station. Even when the dual-screen configuration works well, it probably won't work after docking, rebooting or undocking. Here is a world to win I think.
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loriccz wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 09:41
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I have just struggled with the same problem yesterday (getting my dual monitor setup@work to work).
(Ati radeon X700, using fglrx vinary driver, 1 DVI and 1 Dsub commected monitors, both of them NEC Multisync LCD 2060nx, on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy)
I can say that
1) The tool 'screens and graphics' messes up xorg.conf horribly, but injects there some useful configuration commands.
2) The tool aticonfig messes the config too but in a different way, also injects some useful lines.
3) By browsing through various forums you can catch a bit here and there.
Put them all together and you can get something usable (as was in my case, after several frustrating hours of trial and fatal error).
If someone's interested i can post some of those interesting parts of xorg.conf here.
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ExtraEye wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 10:09
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Having managed to work Dual screens right I must say I agree with you completely. In order to make the screens work right in linux I had to mess with the xorg file until I got things right - this shouldn't be how this works. The new tool for dual screens is a good idea but doesn't really do the job yet.
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kukuku wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 11:33
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I eventually moved back to just one screen - it wasn't worth the configuration hassles to plug another screen on and off. I really hope this is fixable by April.
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wolfwitch wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 13:38
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This is important to me too. I spent weeks trying to get a dual-screen configuration to work for my laptop, and finally gave up. I eventually managed to get it to work, but then when I unplugged the laptop for a business trip- all hell broke loose. It appears that Ubuntu (or X) can't deal well with toggling between different laptop configs (like docked/undocked). Admittedly- I have an ATI video card, for which Linux support seems to suck.
The "Screens and Graphics" tool is flaky at best, and at least on both my desktop and laptop seems to crash and screw up my xorg.conf file more than actually do anything productive. Things like this make it difficult to sell desktop Linux to others. The first time a desktop comes up in 600x800 and you try to tell someone how to edit xorg.conf- they grab their Windows install disk.
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EvilNight wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:43
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I have to agree.
My home configuration is a pair of 24' Dell screens. At work it's three 17' Samsung screens. I can do wonderful things with them in XP/Vista. Ubuntu by comparison is anemic at best - all I can get are 2D screens with no effects.
Ubuntu needs to be able to run all of its graphical features on any number of displays - with full 3D effects on all screens that support them.
It also needs a graphical configuration that makes this simple to set up, because it's a science project right now.
I'll also second the request for single-window maximize behavior. That's the default in Windows and in MacOS and it's what people are used to. If I have a three monitor landscape, and I maximize an application, I expect it to snap to the screen it is currently on, not blow out across all three screens (which is uselessly distorted for almost all applications).
I think it would be interesting if each screen had its own rotating polygon of virtual desktops. One could rotate all screens in unison, or one at a time.
It's also important that Ubuntu be flexible, so that when screens are added and removed (when a laptop goes into a docking station, for example) one does not have to re-run the entire configuration process again every time.
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roastbeef wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:58
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I really wish dual screens would work right. It is the biggest feature keeping me from using ubuntu on my main system. Instead I just use windows + xming, since the dual monitor support is so much better that way.
I spent days editing xorg.conf, searching forums, trying all kinds of different settings, and nothing worked. I couldn't move applications from one window to the other, the resolutions were never right, if I ever unplugged a monitor bad things happened, the list goes on.
In windows, all you have to do is open up the display properties and click a box to turn an extra monitor on. I wish that ubuntu's graphical program for display management even worked, let alone made setting up dual screens that easy. Whenver I ran it, xorg wouldn't even start until I logged into a shell and put the original (non-dual-head) xorg.conf back.
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jbuys wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:04
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Dual monitor support has been one of the things that I've wished for most with Ubuntu. michaelw, this is not a configuration issue, this is a problem with gui tools available. I was excited when I saw the Screens and Graphics option in Gutsy, until I tried to use it and it broke my xorg.conf (had to blow it away and start from scratch.
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photozz wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:25
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This. what most of the people above had said. I have an IBM T60. I eventually just gave up trying for dual monitors entirely. The "Screens" panel would routinely destroy my xorg if i used it, and editing the file by hand got it working *once*. Then never again. I literally put two days into it. Another point would be that I would like an easy way to force a default resolution and refresh. I can not use any of the projectors at work, as it routinely mis-identifies it and will not produce a usable signal.
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nilgiri wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:38
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Yes, the GUI config for dual screens is flaky at best. As such, I too have pretty much given up on a second screen on my new laptop. With X as the backend, there should be nothing stopping 100 screens to be easily configured within a nice GUI.
I have had very limited success getting a second monitor working on laptops with dual head video cards, and only by tweaking xorg.conf by hand, but this is a pain to have to reboot X every time I want to switch. On the random and rare occasion that using the GUI to enable a second monitor worked, I have never seen it save the config correctly so that it stays the same on next boot, or even the next time I open the GUI. This is actually something I have experienced in several GUI configs, but that is off topic here.
Finally, it may just be the hardware, but on the old laptop I have successfully manged a second monitor through xorg.conf, I found that direct rendering was disabled when the second screen was on. Direct rendering is VERY important for performance, especially on older laptops.
Thanks to all who listen and care and thanks so much for Brainstorm!!!
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deadowl wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 16:57
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Oh, another problem I have when I connect my VGA to a projector or television: I have to change the resolution.
Why does this suck?
-Access to Nautilus on desktop is hindered (files go offscreen)
-My panels don't save their positions when I switch back to my laptop monitor (GNOME doesn't save it)
-Sometimes, when it tries to display on both monitors, my panels don't expand on my (widescreen) laptop.
Though, I'm grateful that I don't have to configure that on a fresh installation anymore.
So yea, a lot of the issues with switching between monitors are problems that arise with changes in resolution.
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calen.thyros wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 18:18
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I can't for the life of me get s-video to work. maybe Auto-detect, or a function in the desktop settings?
(This sight is a brilliant idea)
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koniu1 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 18:23
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It should be easy to configure - just like kubuntu should be usable for none technical people
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wej wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:03
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Two screens is fine, but when I am booted into Windows I run 4 across two different video cards. The Ubuntu GUI for for configuring the monitors should be scalable to n amount of video cards/monitors.
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BungaMan wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:30
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a graphical tool that handles, not just dual but multiple screens would be great. Loads of people upgrade their computer, when you buy a new screen you usually don't throw away your old screen.
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rawsausage wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:35
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Just needs XRANDR love. The X.org is developing fast on this area, the user interfaces should just be built.
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doas777 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:48
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i have 2 screens of different sizes, refresh rates, and resolutions. I need to be able to drag a window or app across the boundary between them. also need the ability to VNC into the box and only see one screens worth, and I need the ability to maximize a window and have it fill that screen not both.
I also need XORG to pick the correct video card (not the integrated one that i disabled in the BIOS) every time an x update reconfigures Xorg.conf.
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acesuares wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 00:05
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4 screens on 2 Nvidia dual-head graphic cards. Configured as one large (4096x1024) Xinerama screen. Works fine, but won't even try compiz on it. In KDE, when I start an app and move the mouse to one of the screens, the app starts in that screen.
But the only way to do it was to rin Graphics and Screens or Display (from the KDE system settings) but that can't handle 2 dual-head cards. But it makes changes in xorg.conf and then from there I could hand-edit the full xorg.conf, that works.
Yes, a better gui configuration tool for this would be very very nice.
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couzin2000 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 02:10
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I'd like to be able to configure my NVidia card so that I can watch tv AND use the pc at the same time - and not lose functionality in my tv and my lcd.
I want my LCD to be in full 1680x1050x32bit mode, and my TV to be in 1024x768x32bit mode. Simultaneously. That can't be done right now.
Get it done! :-)
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KeyserSoze93 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 11:26
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I don't know about Ubuntu, but it works fine with Kubuntu. You can just select two monitors and then restart X. You have the choice of either clone or dual screen, and in dual screen X knows which window the monitor is on (you can either drag it or bind a key to "send to next screen" in the settings) and will maximize to that screen... If a window opens on a screen which is turned off, you can just do (in my case Win+S) to bring it to the one you're using...
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wbro wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 11:32
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my Nvidia Quadro NVS 50/280 dualhead cart is not 3d enabled in Compiz. Yust display the features in compiz wich will run without 3d.
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Starks wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 14:34
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*XRandR GUI
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clemdup wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 18:19
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Nope it won't do it for now, as says Alberto Milone on the URandR website :
- no nvidia support :
"Requirements:
* An Intel card with Intel's modesetting driver or an ATI card with the open source driver ("ati")[version 6.7.191 or higher]
* xorg-server 1.3 or higher (on any GNU/Linux distribution)"
- no Compiz support :
"Make sure you disable Compiz before you use a a method other than Clone mode"
...so yes it will be the solution, what I'm looking for is compiz on my two desktops with my nvidia card :) so as I said, this has to be improves (in Ubuntu standard installation, too)
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andersja wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 19:37
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Related (but not duplicate): Multi head support (set up one PC with 2 monitors, 2 keyboards and 2 mice to let 2 users log in individually):
Links to how this can be done in Ubuntu today (cumbersome!) here:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3153/ Please vote!
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socceroos wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 13:13
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As far as I've heard. Hardy Heron *WILL NOT* ship with hotplug support.
Apparently its not 'consumer ready'.
This means more setbacks. :(
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strixy wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 14:25
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Excellent idea. I gave up on dual monitors 4 years ago (I have a Matrox G550 dual head collecting dust). I check it out every now and then and can't be bothered with editing xorg.conf from the cl with vi anymore. I use the 2nd monitor with a 2nd computer now, but I would love to be able to use it with my primary rig and move that 2nd box to the closet.
The option to enable your 2nd monitor as a TV (For s-video outputs) is borked.
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leandro.miranda wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 14:42
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Here in the company at least 40 computers use dual-screen function, and it is extremely important that we have more support for video settings as necessary in graphical mode so friendly.
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nfilus wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 15:42
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Just by accident I updated to Hardy at the same time, that I got a LCD screen for my laptop, so I almost wanted to blame Hardy for not working XV video. After searching some forums I discovered, that the video was playing fine on the now unused builtin LCD.
Solution (working for free radeon driver):
apt-get install xvattr # one-time installation
xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1 # switch to secondary screen
# use mplayer, totem, xine ...
xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 0 # switch back to primary screen
for fglrx users there is a solution using aticonfig -ovon 1
VOTE +1
+ make this work automagically
+ add xvattr / aticonfig to default install
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paulohap wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 13:03
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it gets worst when your desktop have two different resolution monitors. after hours struggling with X configuration file, I got it to work, but cant set different wallpapers for each screen and it does not accept my big monitor as the main one, only the small.
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random wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 16:05
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I have no idea what everyone's problem is.
Ive been running a dual head setup for years now across several linux distros. The first time I did it, I had to mess about with xorg.conf, but now the nvidia-settings tool seems to do it all. You click 'enable monitor', choose a resolution, drag it to the right side, etc. Very much like the XP config everyone is praising above.
Acceleration works across both monitors including compiz, windows maximize to a single window. Everything just works.
I can't speak for ATI cards as I don't own, or really ever plan to own one.
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BungaMan wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 22:01
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All of the above + add a fix in gnome for multi screens.
The gnome panel with the program buttons does not appear on other monitors besides the main one. I have to add one manually to get a list of open applications on the screens, other than the primary. So please make it automatically that a panel is added for each additionally connected screen.
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octopus.tentacles wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 06:08
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I'm really happy with how things are moving with xrandr... dual screen used to be a massive headache, but it's getting much easier to work with.
As noted previously, would love to see on multi-output either the option of individual panels per monitor, or at the very least, the retention of all desktop icons/panel/other docks on the primary monitor such as LVDS.
For laptop owners, this is quite important when doing presentations etc...
thanks
b.t.w the new gui in hardy looks great!
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wjlroe wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 17:15
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I'm using dual screen in Gusty and it works very well. I can move between screens, maximise to one screen etc. But this is due to ATI's driver and their config tools. It would be great for monitors to be detected (and graphics cards, when they are installed) and for the user to be able to drag monitors around as they please to set up multi-monitors intuitively.
I look forward to Hardy.
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aidave wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 20:13
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I love Ubuntu and have been using it now as my primary OS, but this is one of the primary missing features that really really gets me down. On Windows XP I could effortlessly use multiple monitors (3) but on Ubuntu its like a nightmare trying to figure this out. The "Screens" applet in Ubuntu displays nothing but garbage information, and is almost completely useless.
Please fix this, if I knew how to contribute, I would!!
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elitepenguin wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 12:12
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Done?!!!?
Quote from the blogpost:
"CAUTION: Xrandr is buggy on certain hardware. It's not this GUI tool's fault (you can usually replicate the bugs... blah blah"
It's good to see that there is some improvement. However I think Ubuntu has still a long way to go, to get everything working correctly. Please Mark this Idea as not done again.
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Ansible wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 21:14
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I have a thinkpad t61p; I was able to configure it to work with an external monitor. Then I was able to switch back to single monitor mode. But ever since, ubuntu comes up in the wrong resolution every time I boot up. I change it to LCD native resolution (sometimes having to log out and back in) and its fine. But it never remembers, so irritating, especially since it used to work.
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wladston wrote on the 18 Mar 08 at 23:24
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+1!!
On windows : plug second monitor on the notebook, screen flirks, after about 3 seconds I can use the two screens
On Ubuntu : plug the second monitor on the notebook : nothing happens :( After some hours searching on the internet, I'm able to "temporarily" and manually setup dual screens, but it will disable compiz and make desktop look bad :(
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aidave wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 18:34
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I dont understand why Xinerama was dropped for XRandR, when XRandR isnt finished and doesnt work?
Couldnt they have waited for XRandR to catch up to Xinerama before making it integrated into the OS? Ive found XRandR to be nothing but a major pain in the butt, crashy and impossible to use. There is no good info on it. To even find out that XRandR doesnt support multiple monitors yet (until 1.3 comes out) took a week.
Very frustrating guys.
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mephisto56 wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 16:41
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I hope this gets developed further. Hardy is an improvement in this respect but it's hardly plug and play. I have to choose (enable) and set the resolution for my plugged in monitor every time I rebooted.
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InfoSec812 wrote on the 30 Apr 08 at 16:41
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Mephisto is correct in one point. Hardy is a significant improvement. There are still issues to work out. One thing that I have noticed is that the "Virtual" screen size in Xorg is not set at all. If you want to set up a multi-head system, your "Virtual" parameter must encompass the size of all of the selected displays. If it doesn't, you get an error about the selected size is greater than the maximum. This is easily fixed by adding:
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 2560 1024
EndSubsection
to the "Display" section of your xorg.conf, but this should be automatically adjusted based on the monitors connected and the maximum video RAM.
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ssam wrote on the 4 May 08 at 09:50
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+1 for a clever way of handling xvattr. could it be automatic to the point where when i drag totem from one screen to another
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wladston wrote on the 7 May 08 at 01:10
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Xrandr GUI on 8.04 didn't work for me :(
my second monitor will still have to use windows and/or wait another ubuntu release to have a chance ....
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benlen wrote on the 8 Jun 08 at 11:15
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Don't forget this function:
"I would like to move windows from a screen to another"
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elitepenguin wrote on the 16 Jun 08 at 11:11
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X11 needs to be fixed first. The idea behind XRandR is taht you can reconfigure xorg at runtime. (and that this can be done with a nice gui tool)
If you want to do dual screen you STILL have to add an entry caled virtual in the xorg.conf (I guess this is due to the fact that X11 was written 10000 years ago) So you have to get rid of the xorg config first.
The you can start writing a gui tool. And PLEASE do this professional, i have tried about 5 gui tools, which can do some few stuff, but mostly doesn't work.
If you want to do it now, you have to edit the xorg conf frist and then use the cli tool. This took me hours to figure out!!!
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SamTzu wrote on the 2 Aug 08 at 12:24
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Agreed. X sucs.
As a result, VNC,alt,etc. sucs.
Heres my sad story...
32bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on 64bit AMD with Ati Rage X1900
CD installation.
1) Gnome works on dual head by showing the same desktop on both screens.
2) Installed ATI drivers - Gnome works on both screens ok but on KDE 3.5 only on the left screen.
3) Reconfigured using ATI cli tools everything works on both Gnome&KDE but on Xface. Xface only shows the same desktop on both screens.
4) Upgraded to KDE 4.0 - Gnome only shows the same desktop on both screens.
5) Reconfigured ATI drivers - Gnome&KDE works on both screens ok.
6) Upgraded to KDE 4.1 - Gnome shows both screens ok but KDE 4.1 only shows the left desktop. Right is black although KRandR shows Both Screen1 & Screen2 but when you use it to "Configure Display" it (KDE) only shows "Default" connected screen1.
It seems to me that the different organizations involved here don't much care what the others do CLEARLY there is little co-operation between them.
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Xepra wrote on the 5 Aug 08 at 05:59
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It is probably bad to promote brainstorms on other threads, but it is related and I am afraid that this idea did not get enough traction to stay on the front page long enough to get many views. I feel as though most people interested in dual screen support will like this idea as it provides the most robust, scalable, and flexible implementation for multiple monitors that I can think of:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11787/
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sarag wrote on the 9 Aug 08 at 07:42
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It's very sad, that this thread also came to no result or solution to the problem. I agree to all the writers, that multihead is still a pain and at work, i see that this is one of the key-features that prevents many people to switch to linux, because they definitly need the option to switch from singleview (laptop solo) to a variation of multihead views (laptop docked, laptop with beamer A, laptop with beamer B, laptop at another monitor with other resolution than docking-station, etc).
At last, I was the only one that fighted through all the hassle and got my configuration to work, but the way to this was a horror.
I have a 64bit DELL XPS M1330 laptop (the one with the nvidia-card, not the later version with the integrated intel-graphics). I run 64bit Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS on it. One of my main applications is VirtualBox with a Win XP SP2 in it, cause as a projectmanager, there is still the need to use MS Project together with our MS Project Server.
The need to discuss the plan or show things in a big round with different beamers on different locations and to work at the office with no fix workstation but "virtual desks" with different external monitors (we have a lot of "work-places", where the consultants can work, if they are at the office an not at the customer) was no problem with XP/Vista, but i absolutely wanted to get my ubuntu to work with this an not to switch back to XP/Vista.
At the end, there was no other sollution than to make a couple of X-configuration files, bind them to the logon-dialog an switch to the needed configuration at the actual place, f.e.: take the configuration with clone-mode for the small projectroom at the customer, take the configuration with external 1600x1200 LCD at workplace A, take the configuration with external 1280x1024 LCD at workplace B, and so on.
It was a mess to get all these configurations work together!
I hope that the ubuntu-team will find a solution for this in the future because i am still lucky with my linux beeing the main system and don't want to configurate myself to death in the future with for example 3 or 4 parallel projects (all with different screen-resolutions) :)
I still have hope!
LLAP
sarag
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