Dualhead describes multi monitor setup with only two screens.
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Cursor trapped on secondary X screen
Problem
My mouse keeps getting stuck on DISPLAY=:0.1.
Setup
Three monitors on two cards with two X Screens.
Radeon HD 6950 (00)
DISPLAY=:0.0
Monitor 1 over HDMI
Monitor 2 over DVI
Radeon HD ...
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Does an onboard video affect the X windows configuration?
Does the onboard video on the motherboard affect the X windows configuration?
My system has onboard and pcie video. The onboard video is a NVIDIA GeForce 7025 GPU, On Board Graphic Max. Memory ...
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Dual Monitor, screen flashing problem - Ubuntu 13.04
I've just upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04 and now my screen flickers an awful lot when it is set up to use both monitors. I know for sure it isn't a hardware problem: when I set it to use only 1 monitor, ...
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Dual Monitor Resolution problem
Whenever I plug in my second monitor, which is my tv that I plug in using HDMI, the screen zooms in really far, and I can only access about half of the desktop. I have windows on my other hard drive ...
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How do I get two X displays across two monitors, working independently
I'm running an nvidia card on a machine running a fresh install of 12.04.
I'm using the drivers available from the main repos. I have the program 'nvidia-settings' available.
I have an x display on ...
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No notifications on dual-head setup
Notfications don't appear on my dual-head setup. When I unplug a monitor or set it to mirror, they show up. notify-send doesn't do anything. It's the same for the fglrx and open source drivers.
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Multimonitor in login screen vs. lock screen
I have a multiple monitor setup with two screens. The login screen uses dual monitor mode (as seen on the first picture), but the lock screen (CTRL + ALT + L) uses only a single monitor and disables ...
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nvidia-settings recognizes monitors resolution but refuses to allow me to choose it
I have an nVidia GTX 570 card in my machine, with two monitors connected. This very, very nearly works. I am running Kubuntu 12.10. Upon installation, both monitors worked great, I only had to swap ...
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display port on x230 not working
having problems with my new lenovo x230 - using dual montiors, only vga registers anything. This has the Intel graphics controller : 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge ...
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Dell E6510 with Intel i950 cannot detect second display in Precise
After a bout of trouble with 10.04, 10.10 fixed the driver issues with my Intel video card. I avoided upgrading for some time, but bit the bullet this weekend. I was able to upgrade and get the box ...
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Can't get second GPU recognized
I just stuck in another GPU to run two screens.
$ lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA ...
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Dual monitor display 12.04?
I have 2 beautiful 27" ASUS monitors. I started trying out Ubuntu 12.04 and now only one works and thats VGA.
Any help here cause I'm stumped. I have a BFG Tech Nivida Geforce 8800 GT 512MB and I'm ...
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DisplayLink usb on ubuntu 12.04 on laptop
I'd like to use a displaylink usb UGA-2k-A rev b. (dl-195) on my laptop with ubuntu 12.04
I have an Asus x53s with intel graphics and nvidia Geforce GT 520MX 1GB.
I've read a lot of posts about how to ...
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dual head monitor after upgrade: menu and windows borders missing in second screen
I had 10.04 with dual head monitors. After upgrade to 12.04 the second monitor is working but there are no "theme" or "window decoration" there...
The mouse pointer is the "old" X
I have a nvidia ...
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Additional display monitor resolution has to be reconfigured whenever I remove power cord from laptop
I have a 20-inch LG monitor which I connected to my dv6 Laptop running 12.04.So both displays are integrated and whenever I remove power cord from my laptop after the battery is charged,the display ...
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Twinview - Specify Screen to Launch Application on
I am trying to launch my xbmc on my secondary monitor/TV, but because of Twinview, standard ways such as $Display=0.1 will not work. I have also tried gdevilspie, but it doesn't seem to catch it on ...
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Enabling “AllowDualLinkModes” in xorg.conf
I'm using a GeForce GT 620 (which is dual-link compatable) and a DVI-I dual-link splitter to try to have a desktop extended onto two monitors.
At the moment when I plug in the monitors, only the ...
