Re: 2 video resolutions

John Gill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have the same netbook with the Ubuntu Netbook remix.
> What are the tools for managing dual screens?
> I doubt I will get him to switch, I will never hear the end of him asking
> for support. :-(

With Karmic:

If you go to the System section, look for "Display".   Fire it up,
plug in an external monitor, cross fingers and click on "Detect
monitors".    All going well it will do just that.

You get a graphical display of the current layout and can drag the
monitors around to choose which is to left etc.   Also can select
which ones are on.   For me it "just works"

As to getting him to switch, you'll probably not get too many support
requests once he is up and running.   A good option is to get a USB
stick with the latest netbook remix and just boot from that.    That
way he can see what it is like (it actually runs pretty well off the
stick), before taking the plunge.

John
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