On Friday 21 August 2009 18:20:06 William M. Quarles wrote: > I'm trying to set up a spanning desktop on my Dell Latitude C640 laptop, > which has an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 graphics chipset and a Dell 1504FP > LCD monitor in analog (VGA) mode. I use Gnome on Fedora 10. > > I can (sometimes) get the spanning desktop to work using > System/Preferences/Hardware/Screen Resolution from the Gnome menu with > the laptop configured to be on the left, and the external display > configured to be on the right. However, this is actually the opposite of > my physical setup at my desk. Every time that I try to switch the > displays to their actual layout, the desktop still spans, but the > displays are mirrored, which is not only useless, but can also cause > problems, especially when sometimes it results in the display without > the top and bottom bars missing (!). Does anybody know how I can get > this work properly with the laptop on the right and the external monitor > on the left? I would try to do it from the command line first, using xrandr. You can put all desktops left, right, up, down of each other, overlap, rotate, reflect sideways, upside-down, inside-out, and whatnot... When you sort out the options that make it work as you wish, you can put it in ~/.login or /etc/rc.local or whereever... man xrandr HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
