Of course, there are also certain driver level issues that can have a serious impact on functionality. For example, I believe it is impossible to control the primary display if the Intel drivers are being used; on a laptop (the most common place to use multi-head I think) these will almost always regard an external display as primary (I got stuck with the "monitor on top" issue. I am not sure what features are available from Nvidia, ATI or the free-drivers or if these features remain consistent across the range. How these discrepancies get addressed is, I am afraid, beyond me.
So even if additions were made to Gnome, I seriously doubt the required features and controls would be consistently available. I am afraid I am no big expert on the matter - I have simply given up trying to get multi-head to work as it was just too difficult and this has, basically, halted my attempts to adopt Linux for now. I have only managed to find documentation on behaviour from external sites (i.e. not run by the Gnome project), one example is http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#Note_for_Gnome_users so perhaps my information is wrong? -- gnome-display-properties: no way to set which is the primary monitor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206528 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is a bug assignee. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
