On Monday 22 Mar 2010 5:35:27 pm steve wrote: > On 03/22/2010 04:25 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Monday 22 Mar 2010 4:18:09 pm Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> I have an acer aspire 4720z. This has fn+f6 hot key that displays > >> either only projector, both laptop and projector and only laptop. This > >> works perfectly in kde. In gnome on the other hand, Everything appears > >> on the projector screen, but on the laptop only the top bar and bottom > >> bar are available. The rest of the screen is blank. The hot key has no > >> effect. Any clues? > > > > forgot to add that this is fedora 11. > > Well, what you are seeing is a 'spanned' desktop (ie: both laptop and > projector are part of *one* single spanned desktop). To choose the > behavior you described, ie: the display on either one screen or a mirrored > display, you can try "System->Preferences->Display". > > Note, one annoying little glitch is sometime both monitors are detected but > one shows up 'on-top' of the other, so until you 'drag' the one on top you > would not see the other. > > For spanning desktop drag any of the monitors to the position you prefer > (ie: left or right of laptop display). For display a single 'non-spanned' > desktop on both screens, select Mirror screens. And for using only a > single screen, choose the one you do not want to use and select 'off'. > > Let us know if it works. If it does you can select the "Show displays in > panel" checkbox to quickly launch the interface. > > BTW: using spanned desktops is /much/ more convenient than mirrored or > individual screens once you get used to it.
I tried everything - can get a screen on the external display, or a screen on the laptop. But not the same screen on both. Mirror command gives a kernel bug message and doesnt work. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
