Re: Gnome Shell and multiple monitors

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On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 11:43 -0300, fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have an LGx200 netbook (atom N470, 1366 x 768 Intel GMA 3150, 2GB
> RAM) which I used with Fedora 14 and compiz with no problems, using an
> external monitor or projector to show OpenOffice Impress slideshows.
> It was very nince having the slide full screen on the external monitor
> and the LCD screen using the presenter view with notes, time, etc.
> 
> After installing Fedora 15 (fresh new install) I see Gnome Shell gets
> lost whenever I try to use an external monitor and NOT using twin
> display. Once I managed to get gnome starting into the "failback
> mode", "security mode", "classic mode" or whatever you call it --
> without Gnome Shell and everything worked fine for my presentation.
> But other times I had to use twin display and was not able to use
> LibreOffice Impress nice features for external monitor.
> 
> So I have two questions:
> 
> 1. How to make gnome shell work fine with an external monitor and
> NOTusing twin display?
> 
> 2. Failing (1), how to control whether I start Gnome using the gnome
> shell or another "classic " window manager / desktop manager ?
> 
> 
> []s, Fernando Lozano
> 

The answer to question 2 is as follows. When you are in the login
screen,, just about to type the passwd there is a window on the screen
that allows you to choose what desktop manager to use.
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