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 <aheam!> 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
