Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly:
> Hi All, > > I am trying to set up two monitors, but have next to no experience on > the subject. Last time I set up two monitors on a machine was years > ago and I recall using xinerama and xorg.conf. Now I do not use > xorg.conf and I'm still running x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.7-r1 > > Upon booting up this machine showed both monitors with the same > resolution and cloning each other. What video driver? > > $ xrandr -q > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1920 x 1920 > VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 359mm x 287mm > 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0 > 1152x864 75.0 > 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0 > 832x624 74.6 > 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 > 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9 > 720x400 70.1 > DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 509mm x 286mm > 1920x1080 60.0 + > 1280x1024 75.0 60.0* > 1152x864 75.0 > 1024x768 75.0 60.0 > 800x600 75.0 60.3 > 640x480 75.0 59.9 > 720x400 70.1 > > To change the new larger monitor connected on the DVI port, I ran: > > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto > > and that gave me: > > $ xrandr -q > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1920 > VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 359mm x 287mm > 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0 > 1152x864 75.0 > 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0 > 832x624 74.6 > 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 > 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9 > 720x400 70.1 > DVI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 509mm x 286mm > 1920x1080 60.0*+ > 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 > 1152x864 75.0 > 1024x768 75.0 60.0 > 800x600 75.0 60.3 > 640x480 75.0 59.9 > 720x400 70.1 > > Is there some invocation to allow me to set this up like <aheam!> > MSWindows does? I mean, in WinXP all desktop icons and toolbar stays > at the bottom of the DVI monitor. The VGA monitor on the left just > shows the desktop background, but has no toolbar or desktop icons. > The user can however drag application windows from the DVI monitor to > the VGA monitor, seamlessly between the two. On this machine I can't > - they are just clones of each other ... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
