Dual monitor - how to save settings?

[chris]

On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:06 +0200, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 22:01, chris wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Chris, Colin,
> 
> Thanks for your replies but "tick the box" and "System, Preferences,
> Monitors" don't have a lot of meaning for me, because I constantly switch
> between Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Openbox, Ion, Awesome, Fluxbox,... I have a bit
> of a Frankenbuntu, but it all works just fine.
> I am not familiar with the common Ubuntu abstraction layers imposed by the
> GUI. However, I *have* used "System, Preferences, Monitors" in Gnome
> (which is just a fancy graphical front end for the xrandr commandline
> utility), and it is not remembered. So there is my problem.
> 
> Is there anyone on the list who knows about xrandr?
> 
> -- 
> Amedee
> 
> 
man xrandr is pretty straight forward