On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I like to use an external monitor when doing more serious work on my > netbook. As far as I can see there is nothing in MCC for setting that > up, so I assume I have to use System Settings. However, that too only > offers me the settings for the netbook's display.
I think "system settings' is a kde thing, not sure. On some laptops there's a function key that switches. On mine (HP Elitebook/NVidia GT216 Quadra FX 880M) it doesn't, but I found a package called "disper" that provides a command-line program called disper that works very well. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
