external monitor

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:55:02PM +0100, norman wrote:
> < big snip >
> 
> > Hope it works for you.
> 
> Thank you all for you help, it's so easy when you know how. Using
> Synaptic I found lxrandr,downloaded and installed it and ran in a
> terminal window. Up popped a window with three possibilities, I chose
> the one I wanted and the laptop monitor switched off and the external
> monitor was set to the correct resolution. Ubuntu is certainly great.

FWIW the standard GNOME screen resolution tool (system -> preferences ->
screen resolution) also allows you to do that, and uses the same RandR
API underneath.

Marius Gedminas
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