Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
Thank you so much -- I understand what i need o do now . but i dont have a xorg.conf file anywhere. The site say its: etc/X11/xorg.conf but its not. I found something on Wikipedia saying that the xorg.conf can be located differently on different OSs, so i did a file search and I couldn't find it. I found this after scanning the whole file system: File: xorg.conf.4 location: usr/X11/share/man/man Is this what I'm looking for?? If not, where is the xorg.conf file i need to edit the virtual screen size. Matt This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
On 17 Jun 2008, at 15:38, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Matt Parnell wrote: I;ve googled: Xrandr But i don't understand what i need to do. How do i use Xrandr? What do i need to do to make it work? If your card/driver supports it, you can run the /usr/X11/bin/xrandr command to use it, for instance /usr/X11/bin/xrandr --auto. Some more examples are at: http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html http://en.opensuse.org/Multiple_Displays_Using_XRandR FWIW, OpenSuSE's GUI for this (variants of which are also used in Ubuntu and some other distros) is being pushed upstream to GNOME, so we should see it in OpenSolaris at some point, maybe even 2008.11. http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-04.html#multiscreen-hackfest-01 Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
Matt Parnell wrote: Thank you so much -- I understand what i need o do now . but i dont have a xorg.conf file anywhere. The site say its: etc/X11/xorg.conf but its not. I found something on Wikipedia saying that the xorg.conf can be located differently on different OSs, so i did a file search and I couldn't find it. If you have an xorg.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, OpenSolaris will use it, but it defaults to not having an xorg.conf and autodetecting the correct hardware settings instead, so you won't find one if you haven't made one. You can make one by running /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -configure when X isn't running - to do that, kill gdm (which in turn kills your current login session X server) with: svcadm disable gdm Once you've created and edited the xorg.conf, you can restart gdm with: svcadm enable gdm -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
Thank, I'll try that, but I don't know what i need to use put in this xorg.conf file. Anyone got a template which i can edit for my laptop? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:01:28 PDT Matt Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you so much -- I understand what i need o do now . but i dont have a xorg.conf file anywhere. The site say its: etc/X11/xorg.conf but its not. I found something on Wikipedia saying that the xorg.conf can be located differently on different OSs, so i did a file search and I couldn't find it. I found this after scanning the whole file system: File: xorg.conf.4 location: usr/X11/share/man/man Is this what I'm looking for?? No. If not, where is the xorg.conf file i need to edit the virtual screen size. You'll have to create one. xorg looks in a number of different places for it, including /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and if it fails to find one it will make up values that should work for most systems, though it seldom does what you want with dual head systems (this seems to be true everywhere - Mac Windows FreeBSD all default to mirroring one display on all available monitors). BTW, I discovered that the nvidea driver used by the 2008.05 distribution (updated to b90) doesn't do xrandr; you have to use Xinerama. The upside is that the nvidia-settings program in the distribution provides a nice gui for doing all this and saving the resulting xorg.conf. The downside is that enabling/disabling a monitor requires restarting X, so I'm not sure it's suitable for your laptop. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
I;ve googled: Xrandr But i don't understand what i need to do. How do i use Xrandr? What do i need to do to make it work? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
Matt Parnell wrote: I;ve googled: Xrandr But i don't understand what i need to do. How do i use Xrandr? What do i need to do to make it work? If your card/driver supports it, you can run the /usr/X11/bin/xrandr command to use it, for instance /usr/X11/bin/xrandr --auto. Some more examples are at: http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html http://en.opensuse.org/Multiple_Displays_Using_XRandR -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:35:23AM -0700, Matt Parnell wrote: Hey Guys, its the Noob again. lol As you all know I'm an XP guy, attapting to OpenSolairs, so far its been great, a couple hickups that you'veset me in the correct directions, but i still am loving it. A Think which I've got used to on XP is the extended Desktop funtion. I am using a laptop, 15.4 1280x800. I have connected an external monitor, 19 1440x900. On XP, all i have to do is go to properties, enable the monitor drag it to where i want it, click extend and I can use both monitors. All i do i move my curse off the screen to the left (i made it to the left) and it's on me other monitor. Does OpenSolaris have an equivelant? When my Laptop is connected to the Monitor (as it always is, exept for when i'm out with it), OpenSolaris detects it and puts the screen resolution to match it: 1440x900. But that also isplays on my laptop LCD the same. The same thing is displayed, but because my laptop is set to 1280x800 I'm loosing a large block off my laptop screen. That doesn't matter aslong as there is an option, or a file that is editable for extended monitors. Can anyone help me out here? I've been browsing the NET for answers for ages, and i can't find anything. What do you think? (Some of you are probably thinking that im wrong to want it ... but it's very helpful to split your stuff up and have appications opening on diffent screens. I know thats what Work Stations are for, but they don't interface with scondary monitors) Hi, I haven't set this up myself, but I believe the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file should allow you to configure two monitors, their resolutions and where you want them in relation to each other. As I say I haven't done multiple monitors myself, but maybe a google search for multiple monitors X11 might turn up some useful information. HTH Matt Harrison pgpCHQn9ZBjGp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Matt Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys, its the Noob again. lol As you all know I'm an XP guy, attapting to OpenSolairs, so far its been great, a couple hickups that you'veset me in the correct directions, but i still am loving it. A Think which I've got used to on XP is the extended Desktop funtion. I am using a laptop, 15.4 1280x800. I have connected an external monitor, 19 1440x900. On XP, all i have to do is go to properties, enable the monitor drag it to where i want it, click extend and I can use both monitors. All i do i move my curse off the screen to the left (i made it to the left) and it's on me other monitor. Does OpenSolaris have an equivelant? When my Laptop is connected to the Monitor (as it always is, exept for when i'm out with it), OpenSolaris detects it and puts the screen resolution to match it: 1440x900. But that also isplays on my laptop LCD the same. The same thing is displayed, but because my laptop is set to 1280x800 I'm loosing a large block off my laptop screen. That doesn't matter aslong as there is an option, or a file that is editable for extended monitors. Can anyone help me out here? I've been browsing the NET for answers for ages, and i can't find anything. What do you think? (Some of you are probably thinking that im wrong to want it ... but it's very helpful to split your stuff up and have appications opening on diffent screens. I know thats what Work Stations are for, but they don't interface with scondary monitors) Matt you need xinerama, check http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/xinerama_x86.html nacho This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:32:47 -0300 Ignacio Marambio Catán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need xinerama, check Work on Xinerama has stopped in favor of Xrandr. Xinerama's APIs have never been properly specified, and it's static - you can't add or remove screens or change their resolution on the fly. Xrandr doesn't have those problems. Video driver support seems to be spotty - some still do things for Xinerama, others have dropped that in favor of xrandr mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
