saving multiscreen setup

Tue May 3 13:53:01 UTC 2011

On Sunday 01 May 2011 13:50:19 Paul Stear wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have 2 monitors set up side by side using system settings, I have save
> the settings as default but everytime I boot the 2 screens are just
> mirrors, the desktop is not spread across both screens.
> Any ideas?

It depends on your videocard.

If you can use open source drivers, or drivers that support xrandr well, use 
that and put the commands in /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup [1]

If that doesn't work (nvidia proprietary twinview for example), use the good 
'ol xorg.conf to do it.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution