Comments on: Dodge the challenges of a dual-head display setup with Fedora 10 http://linsec.ca/blog/2009/04/14/dodge-the-challenges-of-a-dual-head-display-setup-with-fedora-10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dodge-the-challenges-of-a-dual-head-display-setup-with-fedora-10 You can have it right, or you can have it now. But you can't have it right now. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:33:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vdanen http://linsec.ca/blog/2009/04/14/dodge-the-challenges-of-a-dual-head-display-setup-with-fedora-10/comment-page-1/#comment-3588 vdanen Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://linsec.ca/blog/?p=476#comment-3588 Slick. On a quick glance, xrandr looks pretty useful. I'm going to have to look into that closer. Thanks for the tip! Slick. On a quick glance, xrandr looks pretty useful. I’m going to have to look into that closer. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Adam Williamson http://linsec.ca/blog/2009/04/14/dodge-the-challenges-of-a-dual-head-display-setup-with-fedora-10/comment-page-1/#comment-3587 Adam Williamson Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:06:19 +0000 http://linsec.ca/blog/?p=476#comment-3587 er, xrandr, not randr. er, xrandr, not randr.

]]> By: Adam Williamson http://linsec.ca/blog/2009/04/14/dodge-the-challenges-of-a-dual-head-display-setup-with-fedora-10/comment-page-1/#comment-3586 Adam Williamson Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:04:53 +0000 http://linsec.ca/blog/?p=476#comment-3586 You don't have to power anything down to re-arrange the displays, you can do it hot with the command line 'randr' utility, or the GUI gnome-display-properties applet. You can enable or disable either head or re-arrange them, and the desktop will be redrawn appropriately. It's worth noting that, in my experience, GNOME handles on-the-fly updating of multiple monitor setups substantially better than KDE does. KDE kind of screws it up - your taskbar will often wind up all over the shop, fullscreen windows don't behave right, etc. You don’t have to power anything down to re-arrange the displays, you can do it hot with the command line ‘randr’ utility, or the GUI gnome-display-properties applet. You can enable or disable either head or re-arrange them, and the desktop will be redrawn appropriately.

It’s worth noting that, in my experience, GNOME handles on-the-fly updating of multiple monitor setups substantially better than KDE does. KDE kind of screws it up – your taskbar will often wind up all over the shop, fullscreen windows don’t behave right, etc.

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