Re: Dual monitor problem (intel, GNOME)

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> 
>> On 2009-02-19 12:52, Mirco Piccin wrote:
>>> grandr is a frontend to xrandr.
>>> You can edit  a simple bash script that launch xrandr with your
>>> preferred settings.
>> 
>> Hm, I found the commands for resolution and putting one screen
>> right of the other, but I didn't find the command to put the
>> panels on the primary screen. Any idea?
>> 
>> (Btw: While I prefer xrandr commands over a GUI, such as grandr,
>> I wonder what my mother would do. She uses Gnome on etch, but
>> has no idea what "bash" or "script" mean. For a text editor, she
>> would try OpenOffice. Fortunately, she has only one monitor.)
> 
> I'm using KDE tehre in the desktop config you can specify on which display
> you prefer to have your panel
> 
> the xrandr command line I use is
> 
> xrandr --output VGA --right-of LVDS --auto
> 
> regards

I do create a shortcut somewhere on the desktop of my father which would be
the xrandr command and assign an icon to it, so my father can remember it.
now when he wants to have a kind of shell behavior

it worked fine so far

regards