Re: windows envy

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George Galt wrote:

> If you are using the proprietary nVidia driver, I believe that you can
> establish cloned screens through the nvidia-settings application.  I'm not
> sure if nouveau can do it, but you could try google:
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MultiMonitorDesktop
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Neal Becker
> <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I'm rarely jealous of windows users.  When I make a presentation using my
>> wide-
>> screen laptop, using a crappy projector that is limited to 1280x1024, the
>> best I
>> can figure is to put the projector 'right of' and the laptop on the left,
>> leaving the laptop at it's native res and the projector at 1280x1024.
>>  Works,
>> but awkward - for one thing can't see the presentation on the laptop.
>>
>> I noticed my colleague (windows 7?) did a sort of clone, where the
>> projector got
>> his 1280x1024, while the laptop kept the native res, but the image was
>> narrowed.
>> Hey, that's just what I need.  I guess the world of X, kde, nvidia, etc
>> doesn't
>> do this?
>>
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Clone with 2 different res doesn't work like that.  The lower res screen is just 
one corner of the higher res - and most important - putting the image to be 
projected into fullscreen mode will cause it to be fullscreen on the laptop - 
not the projector.

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