Second monitor

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 18:59, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> I have an unused second screen with DVI and VGA ports, and the desktop
> has a DVI port.

You don't specify your GPU, but on almost all modern PCs, yes, this is trivial.

Turn off the PC, attach the 2nd screen in your preferred orientation,
turn on the PC. Both screens should come up as parts of 1 big desktop.
Set the landscape screen as the primary one. Set the 2nd screen as
rotated 90º left or right as appropriate.

Done.

I have done this on XFCE, Cinnamon, KDE 5, GNOME 3 and Ubuntu Unity.
Works fine. Not all desktops handle 2 screens well -- KDE is poor,
GNOME is awful, Cinnamon is minimal but functional. XFCE and Unity are
best at it, as at most things, IMHO.


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