-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/12 20:16, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 20:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>> 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. >>> >> That sounds like the function key to switch between internal and >> external monitor. Fn+F5 is supposed to cycle between internal, >> external or both, but it doesn't work. > > Doesn't work for me either in Linux, but I can have a launcher > (gnome 2) that runs disper -S to use the secondary screen, and > another that runs disper -s to go back, or disper -e to extend the > desktop to both. > > ATI (OK, AMD) drivers seem to have better xrandr support than > nvidia, but I still find "disper" more convenient than the GUI. > E.g. get up to give a talk and double click an icon to start > projecting. > I previously ran Fedora 14 on this netbook, and while the display wasn't ideal - slightly fuzzy in fact - I could get the whole screen, so it's not inherently a can't-do-it-in-linux problem. I'll look at disper today.
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