On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:14 +0100, Martin Man wrote: > Hi all, > > [ please CC me on the replies ] > > I know this is more "X in general" type of question, but since I use > gnome why not trying to ask here. > > I'm using laptop almost exclusively, and at home I'm also attaching > second CRT to have dual screen setup. It works quite ok, and survives > suspend/resume and uses both screens so that I have a huge desktop. > > As I'm almost exclusively using suspend/resume and never reboot my > laptop unless really needed, my questions would be: > > 1) Is it possible to dynamically disable screen that is not connected > (as when my CRT is unplugged from the laptop), and if not, is it > possible to tell metacity that this screen is not physically there so > that it can not place windows there until I tell him otherwise? On FC6 with nv driver this requires a restart of X aka logout and login ( using xinerama ). With nvidia driver it is possible to stretch display dynamically ( using twinveiw ) . suspend/resume has issue with nvidia driver. > > 2) Is it possible to make certain windows appear always on certain > screens, and if so give them also some special attributes? I know > devilspie can do some window manipulation, but is someone using it with > dual screen setup? > > could you share your portable laptop + dual screen setup best practices? This is usually a personal choice. My second display connected to my laptop is rotated left for easy reading of documents. > > thanx, > Martin > > P.S. if possible I'd like to do most of the things without restarting X > -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.
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