At Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:05:06 +0000, James Freer wrote:
ubuntu 7.04 to 8.04 all had in the menu "Screens & Graphics GUI for setting up. Or via terminal displayconfig-gtk. Useful if you want to use two monitors or have an electronic whiteboard.
Just been trying out 8.10 wondering how much has been changed from 8.04 and couldn't find displayconfig-gtk. I thought they might have put it in 'configuration editor' but haven't.
Has it been replaced with another app - doesn't seem likely to have left it out expecting you to change xorg instead?
This is isn't exactly an answer, but I use xrandr for managing multiple displays. If the X drivers for your video card support it, you tell X to initiate a virtual display of some size considerably larger than your monitor (but within a driver-dependent limit) and then use xrandr to assign portions of that virtual display to specific devices.
In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf I have:
Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x600" Virtual 2048 2048 EndSubSection EndSection
I then use xrandr like this to connect my desktop monitor to my little laptop:
$ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x600 --output VGA --mode 1024x768 --above LVDS
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 is quite informative.