Second monitor

[Peter Flynn]

On 29/12/2018 20:18, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.

It's whatever comes on a Dell XPS.

Yes, almost trivial. Just that I hadn't done it for well over a decade.

> 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.

Nearly :-) The settings needed adjusting so that the landscape monitor 
abutted the portrait monitor with their baselines level in the little 
display adjuster window of the settings applet. Otherwise the portrait 
monitor distorted its vertical resolution.

> 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.

This is Cinnamon and it seems to be fine now, thank you all for your 
help. Enlightenment SIGSEGVs at the moment, but that's probably just a 
setting.

P