On 2013-10-30, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:32:54PM -0500, Dale wrote
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Quick question. I have a Nvidia GeForce GT 220 video card. It has a
>> VGA and a HDMI connection. My question, if I hook a monitor to each
>> port, they will both have the same pic right? Also, I have not hooked
>> anything to the HDMI port yet, does it "just work" or do I have to set
>> something for it to work in xorg.conf or something.
>
> But why would you want identical images? Google Xinerama. See
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo (yeah it's Ubuntu),
> for how to get a B-I-I-I-I-G two-screen-wide desktop.
Or you can have a different desktop on each monitor. [I find that more
useful than have a single big desktop that spans multiple monitors.]
That's done by simply configuring separate X displays. I prefer to
edit my xorg.conf to do that, but you can also use xrandr to configure
multiple displays.
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