[olug] Dual Monitors in F16

[Jay Woods]

On Friday, December 02, 2011 09:31:28 AM SndChaser wrote:
> Jay,
> 
> Is this with the Gnome desktop?  Have you tried any other desktops?

I'm a KDE guy and never tried Gnome. I do have XFCE running on one machine.

The screens come up OK as duplicates. But when I try to switch to left-right, 
one or both screens hash.

> Have you messed around with xrandr / grrandr?

The xrandr software hasn't worked out for me.
> 
> George
> 
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:53:07 -0600, Jay Woods wrote:
> > It doesn't actually matter. Despite a bunch of tutorials and how-to
> > articles,
> > I never can seem to get two monitors to display (left-right)
> > properly. Windows
> > is no problem - I have two of those systems working - one in XP, one
> > in 7. But
> > linux - no joy. Are there any suggestions better than getting a
> > honking big
> > monitor (I did - a 27 incher - it is nice) or use windows?
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