Comments on: How to set up dual monitors in Ubuntu on Dell Inspiron 1501 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/ Stay curious! Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:03:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/#comment-13323 Xaprb Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:49:44 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/#comment-13323 Thanks! I thought the ATI driver didn't like Xinerama. This does turn my desktop into one display stretched across the two monitors. There are still issues with the mouse, though. On the external monitor, the mouse is an opaque square with a blue tiled background, about 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Pretty bizarre. I'll have to fool around with some driver options and see if I can get that to go away. This makes my desktop much more usable: I can now have, for example, multiple windows of OpenOffice on different desktops. Thanks again. Thanks! I thought the ATI driver didn’t like Xinerama. This does turn my desktop into one display stretched across the two monitors. There are still issues with the mouse, though. On the external monitor, the mouse is an opaque square with a blue tiled background, about 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Pretty bizarre. I’ll have to fool around with some driver options and see if I can get that to go away.

This makes my desktop much more usable: I can now have, for example, multiple windows of OpenOffice on different desktops. Thanks again.

]]> By: Morgan Christiansson http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/#comment-13322 Morgan Christiansson Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:53:54 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/#comment-13322 Bit of a late reply, but to drag windows between monitors you only need to enable xinerama. Start X with: startx -- xinerama or add Option "Xinerama" "0" to the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf Bit of a late reply, but to drag windows between monitors you only need to enable xinerama.

Start X with: startx — xinerama

or add
Option “Xinerama” “0″
to the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/#comment-13315 Xaprb Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:38:26 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/#comment-13315 Because I don't want my content re-published all over the web on splogs that are just trying to exploit it for AdSense revenue. Because I don’t want my content re-published all over the web on splogs that are just trying to exploit it for AdSense revenue.

]]> By: don http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/#comment-13314 don Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:30:09 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-on-dell-inspiron-1501/#comment-13314 The rss feeds doesn't contain the whole post but only a few lines, why don't you publish the whole post via feeds. The rss feeds doesn’t contain the whole post but only a few lines, why don’t you publish the whole post via feeds.

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