Dual monitor - how to save settings?

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 10:45, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have two monitors, both connected to the same graphics card:
>
> VGA-0: 1280x1024
> DVI-0: 1920x1080
>
> When I boot up, they are both in 1024x768 and show the same output.
> I use xrandr (or whatever frontend Gnome or KDE provides) to change them
> to their native resolution (their 'automatic' setting) and the DVI-0 to
> the right of the VGA-0 so that I get one huge desktop.
>
> After rebooting I always have to reconfigure this, my modifications aren't
> saved.
>
> I have tried to find recent documentation, but most of what I found was
> for Ubuntu 6.06, and I seem to remember that there were some significant
> changes in X in the last couple of years.

Am I approaching this the wrong way?
Perhaps the "official" Ubuntu way is to create a bash script with this
command:

xrandr --output VGA-0 --left-of DVI-0

and put that somewhere in the boot scripts??
I don't know...


By the way, I am using xrandr, not aticonfig or amdcccle so that already
implies that I am using the open source drivers, not the proprietary ATI
drivers.

-- 
Amedee