On 07/03/14 15:26, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700
don fisher wrote:
Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow
system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to
have been replaced by something I cannot find.
You don't, it "just works" (except when it doesn't). All the info
is supposed to come from the EDID reported by the monitor. Any
tweaks are done at runtime via xrandr, xinput, etc. (which may or
may not be supported by some GUI setting tool that (maybe) remembers
and reproduces the settings via things like the gnome
settings daemon).
On my system at home, I have to override the EDID info to make
the system believe I have a 47 inch monitor and not a 7 inch
monitor with incredibly dense resolution :-). This has all
the same info you used to be able to put in xorg.conf, but now
it comes in a semi-documented binary file with no good tools
to edit it instead of an ascii text file. Such an improvement :-(.
Thanks for getting back. I have a laptop that attach an external monitor
to when I am at home. Until today, it always came up in single screen
mode, duplicated on both monitors. I had a power failure, and now the
system is treating them as two monitors side by side. I am an old timer
an prefer the days of the xorg.conf setup. Any ideas on where the button
for single screen is hidden?
Thanks
Don
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