[Desktop12.04-Topic] Multi-screen setups

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:00:29AM -0400, Dereck Wonnacott wrote:
> My laptop has an Nvidia card and I was not able to activate my external
> monitor with unity 3D. [BUG 864784]
> 
> I miss the window snap function on the shared edge of the screens. Snap only
> seems to work on the far edges of the workspace.
> 
> I would REALLY like display hot-plugging to turn on my external monitor when
> it's plugged in, but I've adjusted to using the nvidia-settings tool every
> time I boot my laptop.

This is because NVIDIA does not support kernel mode-setting, which is a
quite well known deficiency in the driver.  I too am disappointed they
don't support it, and wish there was a way to work around the lack.

Bryce