Dual monitor - how to save settings?

[chris]

On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:05 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 29 May 2010 09:45, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> 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.
> 
> I have a laptop with external monitor in extended desktop mode, which
> in principle I assume is a similar situation.  I just use System,
> Preferences, Monitors to setup the resolutions and these are
> remembered for me with no problem.  Using 10.04 but the same thing
> worked fine in 9.10, though I think it was Displays rather than
> Monitors in the menus.
> 
> Colin
> 
You can also tick the box which adds monitors to the top panel
Cheers the kiwi