xrandr and external monitor

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/5/7 Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il>:
> I am trying to get an external monitor (LCD) working properly on my Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop.
>
>  It has an Fn-F8 combo which should switch/cycle between the laptop screen and the external
>  one.
>  Fn-F8 only works, according to the folks at Dell, with Gnome. They suggested that I try
>  xrandr.
>
>  I have read the man page but can only get a clone of my laptop with the same resolution on
>  both screens. This makes the windows on the laptop too long (so I can't see the bottom of
>  them). On the external monitor things look OK.
>  This was using 'xrandr --auto'
>  I would like to be able to keep my default resolution on the laptop (1280x800) and have
>  1024x768 on the external monitor. Is this possible?

Hi

One way to use two monitors (if your hardware supports it) is to
configure your xorg.conf to use Xinerama or if you have an nvidia card
Twinview. In case of Nvidia you can use the nvidia-xconfig GUI to
configure your xorg.conf.

/ Jonas