<quote who="Michael Lake"> > If I have a laptop that is setup with Xorg for 1440 x 900 and I connect it > to an LCD monitor which does 1280 x 1024 what happens?
The external LCD might rescale it, or just not recognise the signal. > I gather I have to create an entry in the XF86Config file for that > resolution by reconfiguring X. But how do you swap between the laptop and > the monitor? You could also try using RANDR, via xrandr(1) or one of the GUIs for it (if you're using GNOME, the 'Screen Resolution' control panel). RANDR stands for "resize and rotate". In current versions, it does this pretty well, and most software will accomodate the screen size/shape changing. Keith Packard did a demo of the next version of RANDR at the GNOME Boston Summit -- it's looking extremely cool, and it will make configuration of X resolution, displays and screens a thing of the past. :-) Keith will be talking about it at linux.conf.au, too! - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "World domination is a community responsibility." - Michael Hall, LinuxPlanet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
