Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 on a Toshiba Portege R500 laptop. I use my laptop
at home and at work, and have an external monitor at work (a BENQ
T241WA). I often suspend my laptop when travelling, rather than shutting
it down.
When I run Windows (this is a dual boot system) it is easy to choose
whether to use the external screen in full resolution and just disable
the laptop screen, or to use both (with different resolutions and
different content). Both of these choices are difficult in Ubuntu using
System->Preferences->Screen Resolution, where the default behaviour
seems to be to put the same content on both screens, but if one is
screen is smaller, only show what you can from the top left corner. It
doesn't seem to help to drag the screens in the Monitor Resolution
Settings window to different positions relative to each other. "Clone
Screens" is not set.
Also, it seems possible to drag the screens' locations relative to one
another, but that doesn't affect what is shown on the screens. And when
dragging these, it is easy to get in a situation where one or both of
the "monitors" partially disappear off the edge of the window.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
gnome-control-center:
Installed: 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu4.1
Candidate: 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu4.1
Version table:
*** 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu4.1 0
500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:2.22.1-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Dual monitors, but always same content?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253250
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