Questions about multiple monitors (Including projectors), how to set them up, troubleshooting the configuration, etc.
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How do I disable mouse magnet on middle edge with multi monitors?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 on a two screen setup. Multiscreen on 12.04 has generally become much better, but there is one thing that really gets on my nerves: there's a mouse magnet of sorts on the middle ...
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How can I remove duplicate second Unity Launcher on a Dual Screen setup?
See attached image. On my dual screen display I have a Unity Launcher on the left hand screen and also on the right hand screen. Both work perfectly fine.
I don't want two Unity Launchers. Every time ...
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3answers
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How do I setup dual monitors in XFCE?
I've got an laptop with a intel chip, and I'd like to setup dual monitors in XFCE.
How do I do this?
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4answers
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How does Unity work in multi-monitor configurations?
Unity in 10.10 appeared to be focused around single monitor configurations with a single tasking workflow. This works quite well on a netbook which has limited screen real estate.
How does the ...
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4answers
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Multiple monitors, multiple workspaces?
I connected my laptop to my LCD. Using the laptop display hotkey I can switch between different modes - only laptop monitor on, only LCD monitor on, both on and display the same view, both on and the ...
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2answers
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Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard
I know that using Alt-F7, I can use the keyboard to move the window around. I can also use the "Grid" plugin of Compiz to position quickly the window around my current monitor. The grid plugin doesn't ...
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How to make YouTube fullscreen actually fullscreen?
Whenever (using flash) I make YouTube videos fullscreen then they come out not actually any bigger.
In the screenshot below you see exactly what I see when watching a video in fullscreen mode. All ...
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How to tell Xubuntu not to clone but to expand the laptop display to the external one?
I went to the Settingsmanager and selected Display. The external display was listed there. So I selected Use this output (see Screenshot) and after hitting apply the notebook screen was cloned to the ...
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1answer
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How do I get three monitors working?
My workstation has two Geforce 7300GTs and three monitors, and I'd like to put them to good use. Dual monitors works out of the box, but triple doesn't. How can I get the third monitor up and going ...
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1answer
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The selected configuration for displays could not be applied
Just installed 11.10 64bit and followed this guide to install the latest drivers for my Radeon HD 4870.
I have a 24" and a 17" side by side. The larger screen is turned on by default, but the smaller ...
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2answers
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How can I put the Launcher on the other display?
When I plug an external monitor into my laptop, the laptop screen is still considered my primary display. Since my laptop is on the right of my external monitor, I now have the Launcher sort of "in ...
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Dual monitor Youtube full screen help
I have a dual monitor set up. The monitor to my left i use mainly for chat and sometimes tutorial pages. When im at youtube for instance and i want clik full screen the full screen automatically goes ...
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4answers
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Multi screen problems “virtual size does not fit available size”
I recently upgraded to 11.04 beta 2 and everything works just like clockwork, but now I’ve run into multi screen issues :/ at first it worked but then a installed the proprietary drivers (I think this ...
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3answers
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notify-osd and dual monitors
I use Ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop, with an external monitor, which is used as the primary. Notify-osd alerts show on the connected monitor, as I want.
However, some days ago I removed both gnome panels ...
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3answers
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How to set default xrandr settings?
I'm trying to enable dual monitors in Ubuntu. This is working fine, but every time I do it, desktop effects is disabled. I think I've found the reason why, though:
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1answer
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Can I set up 2 monitors to be 2 separate Gnome virtual desktops instead of one big?
If I plug an external CRT to my laptop, it normally either displays the same picture as the laptop's panel, or extends the desktop area. But I'd like it to be a separate virtual desktop (a workspace, ...
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2answers
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How to maximise a window across two monitors?
It's easy to maximise windows on a single monitor (press the maximise button, or drag the window titlebar to the top of the screen).
How can I maximise a window so that it takes up two screens?
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4answers
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Dual monitor alignment on Ubuntu 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop on a docking station with dual monitors (both of them external) set up as shown below (where monitor 1 is primary, and where monitor 2 has been rotated 90 ...
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8answers
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Dual monitor applications opening on wrong monitor
I am new to ubuntu, been using it for about a month now. I created this desktop for myth tv, and so i use a dual monitor configuration(one monitor for watching shows, and one for everything else). But ...
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6answers
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How do you use an android tablet as a second display?
I've noticed people using a product for Windows and Mac called iDisplay which lets you use your Android or iPad as a secondary display. This seems like a great idea, and something that could be done ...
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3answers
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Nvidia dual monitor configuration gets lost every time I reboot
I've recently updated (well, borked then completely reinstalled) to 12.04.
I'm running a dual monitor setup, with a Dell U2410 / Dell 2007WFP combination on an HP Elite Book 8560W. The graphics card ...
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2answers
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How to get Ubuntu guest VM to recognize second VirtualBox monitor?
Now that VirtualBox supports multiple monitors for guests, I decided to try it out with Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha3 (i386) as a guest.
Unfortunately, the second screen stays black and I can't even get xrandr ...
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How do I get HDMI output working on a Dell XPS 15 L502x?
Recently I've bought my dream's notebook, a Dell XPS 15 but since then this dream became a kind of endless nightmare.
I'm almost getting crazy to make my graphic card driver work properly, but it ...
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5answers
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Why are my file selection dialogs so big? How do I make them smaller?
When I use an external monitor, my file selection dialog boxes seem to be huge -- wider than my larger screen. I assume it is a nautilus issue since it happens whether I'm trying to open a file to ...
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3answers
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How can I set up dual monitor display with ATI driver?
I have 11.10 running on a system76 laptop. without the proprietary driver i was able to set up a second monitor (samsung 19") with extended display.
when i activate the proprietary driver, the only ...
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1answer
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Dual screens with one workspace on each?
I have a dual screen, compiz-fusion and i don't have a NVDIA/ATI graphic card and i use ubuntu 10.10.
i currently use the two monitors: the desktop is stretched across monitors and i can drag an ...
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2answers
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How do I perform easy switching to external monitor
I am currently changing between my laptop and my external monitor with the NVidia X Server Settings program and I'm sure I'm doing it in a really dumb way:
I currently select the external monitor, ...
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1answer
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How should I handle multiple monitors when I regularly connect and disconnect different monitors and projectors
I'm moving from a macbook pro (with MacOSX) to a lenovo T430 running ubuntu 12.10. I use the laptop for work, and work from home regularly. I have an external 30" monitor at home, an external 23" ...
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2answers
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Erratic display behaviour on 12.04 using an Asus Zenbook
When I first plugged in my 23 inch monitor through the mini-VGA port, everything worked...both display were detected, and worked.
On the second or third plug in, the internal display would turn off, ...
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3answers
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Problem forcing GNOME Terminal to stretch across multiple monitors
I am running vim in gnome-terminal, and ideally I would like to have fullscreen mode stretch across both monitors, not just one. Is there any way to do this? If I disable CCSM > Grid then I can ...
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1answer
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Unity on Both Screens with Dual Monitors [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Remove Duplicate Second Unity Launcher on Dual Screen
After going to 12.04 the unity launcher now appears on both of my screens. I have screens configured as one large ...
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1answer
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Send or Move a window from one monitor to another with a shortcut key under Ubuntu 12.04 and nvidia 8600 GT without proprietary nvidia drivers
I would like to know how to send or move a window from one monitor to another with a shortcut key under Ubuntu 12.04 and nvidia 8600 GT without proprietary nvidia drivers.
Now, I know I can configure ...
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2answers
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.xsession. .xinitrc, xmonad, and lightdm
Let me preface my question with the following:
I am pretty sure that I can hack together a solution by modifying /usr/share/xsessions/somesessionfile.desktop and make it run /etc/X11/Xsession, and get ...
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2answers
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Is there a Unity / Compiz shortcut key to move a window to your other monitor (not workspace)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard
Sort of like CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Arrow but only to my other monitor, not to a completely separate workspace.
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1answer
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How to 'Expo' One Big Wall with Dual Monitors [closed]
With Dual Monitors, when I use the Expo, it clones repeating itself in each monitor. With 10.10 I solved this with the option 'One Big Wall' but this doesn't work on 11.04
I have a nvidia 560Ti with ...
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2answers
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xmonad dual monitors
I have been giving the window manager Xmonad a try for a few days now on Ubuntu 11.04. I like it a lot but i just set up a second monitor and haven't found the way to configure Xmonad properly for ...
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Dual Monitor in 12.04 - Sort of works
Not an error, per se, more of an observation. Since upgrading to 12.04, I have found and solved some interesting problems. Given my complete lack of Ubuntu knowledge, this has indeed made me feel more ...
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2answers
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Extend Desktop to Monitor over LAN
I want to make use of an old laptop by extending my the desktop from my main PC onto the monitor of this other, old laptop over a LAN connection.
I've looked into Xdmx/dmx, but the project seems to ...
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3answers
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Simple switching between multiple monitor configurations
Context
I use Ubuntu 11.04 on a laptop.
I have three monitor configurations:
Work: disable laptop monitor, use external 1920 X 1200 monitor
Home: disable laptop monitor, use external 1680 x 1050 ...
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2answers
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I cannot set up dual monitors to work with 11.10 using amdcccle 11.9
I've installed the ati catalyst drivers 11.9 manually because the default ones don't work with gnome-shell. But when that I try to change the settings in amdcccle(adminstrative) to use multi-display, ...
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5answers
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How can I extend the desktop onto an external monitor/projector?
I've plugged in a projector into my laptop and I'm attempting to extend the desktop onto it (so that I can run a full screen app on the projector and have the controls on my laptop).
I'm able to ...
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2answers
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How to provide second monitors resolution to application?
I have a dual monitor setup, with the basic TwinView settings from my Nvidia-card (550 Ti). One monitor is my primary display (1600x900) and the other is my TV (1920*1080).
I have arranged XBMC to ...
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Will running dual monitors have any significant impact on system speed?
Will setting up dual monitors on a decent-but-not-too-powerful machine significantly slow down my system?
For specifics to my system, this is a 2GHz Intel Dual-core laptop with 4GB RAM and a decent ...
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1answer
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Can OO Presentation go full-screen to the secondary monitor?
I have two screens set up on my desktop, the second is a projector. For obvious reasons I would like to have the secondary screen ( projector) display the full-screen view of OO Presentation.
I am ...
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1answer
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How to automatically switch monitors with my laptop dock
I have a Dell Precision M4300 with a Dell Dock PRO1X running Ubuntu Natty.
When I have the laptop docked the lcd display is off and I use two external monitors however when I undock the laptop it ...
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Screen turns black when plugging in a second monitor
I'm running 11.04 on a 2011 13" mackbook pro (intel hd 3000 gpu).
Previously everything had been fine, but today when I plug in an external monitor (17" Acer being plugged in via a mini display port ...
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How to run game on one monitor and have programs on other monitor still visible?
How can i make programs on second monitor still visible while playing game (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory)?
I know that i can use windowed mode, but playing in windowed kinda feels different, like ...
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Open new windows on main screen in KDE two-screen setup
I am using KDE (with Kwin) on two screens. Often when I run a new application the new window shows on the second screen eventhough the mouse as well as the active window is on the main screen. How can ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to move the unity launcher 'show' edge on multiple monitor setup?
I'm in a situation where my primary monitor is on my right and that is the screen with the Unity launcher. When I fullscreen an app, the edge that actually tiggers the launcher to reappear is on my ...
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How can I launch apps on the screen that the mouse cursor is on?
I have two screens connected to my computer. I want applications to start on the screen my mouse cursor is on. How can I set this?
