2 screen settings

[Paul Stear]

On Thursday 17 Feb 2011 10:50:33 Isak Enström wrote:
> 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)


Thanks this works well
Paul
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