2 screen settings

[Isak Enström]

On Thursday 17 February 2011 11.14.20 Paul Stear wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 Feb 2011 13:04:18 Alvin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:03:50 Paul Stear wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have 2 screens set up side by side on the kde system
> > > settings-monitors. The problem is that on a reboot the configuration
> > > is lost and I have to set them up again using the kde systems
> > > settings.
> > > Do I need to do anything else so that the configuration just happens on
> > > reboot? thanks for your time
> > 
> > Yes, you need to find out the correct xrandr command to set up your
> > monitors. Find out[1] what command that is and put it in
> > /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup
> > 
> > For example, these are the lines I have:
> > xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1366x768
> > xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1360x768
> > 
> > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
> 
> This is the entry I made but it didn't work, I never got the sign in
> screen. xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1280x1024+0+0
> xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1280x1024+1280+0
> Any other ideas?
> paul

So VGA-1 is your primary screen?
What happens if you run the second command in the termnal?
Also you could try running  xrandr --output DVI-1 --mode 1280x1024 --right-of 
VGA-1 (if DVI-1 is the port and the monitor is placed on the right of VGA-1)
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// Isak