Questions about multiple monitors (Including projectors), how to set them up, troubleshooting the configuration, etc.
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Two different virtual desktops (different X sessions) on two monitors
I have two monitors and ATI 34XX graphic card. Ubuntu 12.04.
I'd like to have two different desktops (not virtual workspaces) on these monitors. For example, when I work with left monitor (desktop) ...
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Dual screen reset after restart
I have an Xubuntu system:
$ uname -a
Linux tnick-desktop 3.5.0-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 11 18:51:59 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
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Can't place windows on center of the screen
I'm using the gnome3 desktop as packaged by https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team.
On my two monitor setup (14'' laptop, 24'' attached monitor) I can't place any window near the center of my seccond ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 dual display showing different desktop icons on the screens [closed]
I have 10.10. (64 bit) with Ati Radeon HD 4300/4500 (with ATI proprietary drivers) and two monitors connected to the same display adapter (DVI + VGA).
I have enabled "Single display desktop ...
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1answer
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Amd Raedon 7950 HD with 3 Displays verry slow
my dream is to play Flightgear on 3 Displays.
Therefore I have the following machine:
Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz × 4
8 GB Ram
Amd Raedon 7950 HD
3 Displays each running with 1920x1080
I ...
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Can I set up dual monitors with Intel HD4000 as one display for XBMC?
I just need confirmation that this works before I go through the expense and trouble of trying to set this up.
I have an i3 3225 with HD4000 graphics. My motherboard has booth HDMI and DVI outputs. I ...
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12.10 extended desktop executed programs start
On 12.10 my extended desktop is just perfect! But i cant set where to start the executed programs. Their always start at the monitor, but i want to start at the laptop screen.
Any idea?
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Second display is rotated
I've just updated to Ubuntu 12.10 last night. When I was at the office, I connected my laptop with a projector. Although it can detect the projector, it incorrectly set the projector portrait. Also, ...
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Gnome3 pointer barrier not working with dual monitors
I have a dual monitor setup using Gnome3 on Ubuntu 12.04.1.
Misc Info:
In the past I used Fedora, there was a pointer barrier between my two monitors in the upper left corner so that I can hit the ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to have dual monitors using a virtual terminal?
I'm a bit of a command line nuthead.
I have a computer with dual monitors. Its setup works just fine in X11 - dual monitors, where my desktop stretches all the way across.
However, what I would like ...
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Dual monitors on lenovo W520 using displayport (Ubuntu 12.04)
I have a W520 with ubuntu 12.04 32-bit installed. I also have an additional monitor that supports DisplayPort. I have the laptop connected to this external monitor, however, I cannot get ubuntu to ...
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Dual Monitors files not on desktop
When I click organize by desktop name or download a new file, it doesn't show up like it is supposed to. The image below shows where they went. I can get them back on, but it doesn't prevent future ...
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Is there a way to put a desktop on a separate monitor?
Is there a way to put a desktop on a separate monitor?
In kubuntu (and I bet in Ubuntu too) out of the box dual monitor configuration just enlarges your virtual screen size, so you can place windows ...
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Two screens in Ubuntu 12.10
Users,
at work I'm using Ubuntu now for a while.
I always try to keep the system up-to-date, so I also made the upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 in October this year.
In 12.04, I had some trouble making ...
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1answer
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Libreoffice Presenter Console in single window
I want to see what Presenter Console looks like while I design my slide-notes in Libreoffice Impress for my talks. I'm working on a single-monitor system but Presenter Console can only be enabled ...
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Setting up multiple monitors KDE 12.04
I have 1 1920x1080 display that I am using as a primary display, with a 1600x900 display off to my side. I have tried to set up the smaller display to be positioned to the right of the larger display, ...
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1answer
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Make the pop up windows of Chrome or Firefox to open in the same monitor
I use dual monitor for my laptop, I work on my laptop and watch TV or Youtube on the external monitor [which is far from my laptop]
whenever firefox or chrome in ubuntu pops up, [for example to ...
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Dual displays not working, white backgorund
My problem is that my second display is white. The things I've tried is: System settings > Displays > enable display. Then I get: required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=(3840, ...
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Displays won't power off with screensaver
My Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop installation keeps display's backlight on when running screensaver. I'm talking about the whatever screensaved comes by default.
My power setting is set to turn off displays ...
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1answer
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How do I loop a movie infinitely on another monitor?
I want to loop a video infinitely in another monitor. How do I do this?
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1answer
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Best triple head display setup
I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with a darn good triple head display setup. I've got a VisionTek 900530 Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 PCI Express video card that has two DVI outputs and one Mini ...
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Using DisplayPort with ThinkPad and DockingStation does not work
I have a ThinkPad x230 in a Mini Dock Plus. It is connected to two ThinkVision displays.
Currently I'm using DVI, as I have had trouble using DisplayPort:
Ubuntu is a current 12.10 installation, the ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 multi-monitor setup isn't working
I have tried everything I can think of and can't get a multi monitor setup working. Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
My setup:
Asus G75VW with nVidia 670M (supports 3 external ...
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I'd like my window switcher to be per-monitor. How do I do that?
I have a multi-monitor setup with nVidia drivers, running Unity/Compiz on 12.10. I'd like to treat each monitor separately, so I can switch desktops on one without affecting the other and run a window ...
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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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How can I configure two monitors from two video sources?
I am currently only able to get a single display running (from Nvidia card), and I want to use a second monitor using my motherboard's video output. The system settings only display the first monitor, ...
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I cant keep my second monitor detected in 12.04
On my work machine the second monitor, connected to the DisplayPort (DP1), is flickering into and out of existence. I'm only running onboard graphics, i.e.:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel ...
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1answer
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When using dual monitors, some software maximize only into the primary display?
When using multiple displays in Ubuntu, If I try to maximize some applications while in the secondary display, the application will move to the primary display and then maximize. I just checked ...
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Dual Monitor 'How To' for 12.04
I recently built my own PC and was delighted with the result, except for a problem with dual monitors. After having tried a few different combinations of hardware, I think what I really need is a ...
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How do I reset my display settings from the command line?
I'm running 12.10 on a dell e5400 laptop and I used xrandr to get the dual monitors working that I connect through a laptop dock. I used xrandr again to switch back to the laptop display when I ...
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dual monitors w/ different workspaces?
I have two monitors connected by vga, but both are showing the same workspace. I want to know how to fix this problem and get back to having separate workspaces on each monitor
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Ubuntu 12.10 AMD Eyefinity
I'm a linux n00b, but I'm trying to learn Ubuntu 12.10, is there a way to make a single top panel when using Eyefinity with 3 monitors?
I would have posted a screenshot, but I was prevented because I ...
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Detect correct resolution dual monitor VGA 9800gt Ubuntu 12.10
I connected a second monitor to my 9800gt on the VGA port. The first monitor is on DVI. Both monitors have a native resolution of 1920x1080 but the second monitor doesn't get past 1360x768 and appears ...
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Triple-display setup using AMD drivers
I am currently running a dual display setup with nVidia 8800GTS video card, on a Ubuntu 12.10 box. The current setup uses nVidia TwinView to render the image on a 1920x1200 display and 1600x1200 one.
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Will a radeon HD 5570 graphics card be compatable with Ubuntu 12.10?
I'm planning to upgrade my computer with a new Hard drive and a Radeon HD 5570 card and wanted to make sure that it will be compatible with Ubuntu 12.10. Is there anything I need to know before I put ...
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Dual monitor error on single monitor setup
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 x86. Once I had two monitors and used the Nvidia control panel to configure dual screen to get a single desktop stretched across the two monitors.
Then I had one monitor ...
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lightdm - enable 3 and then 4 monitors
I've just completed a Ubuntu 12.10 server build on a HP XW8400 desktop with 2 x GeForce dual head DVI gphx cards.
On the build bench I had 1 monitor connected & worked perfectly. 1920x1200 ...
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When Setting Up Dual Monitors with Nvidia The Second Display got a Low Resolution? [closed]
I have just setup a dual monitor system with a 23 inch LED monitor and a 19 inch LCD monitor. The 23 inch one is connected through HDMI. The 19 inch one is connected to the analogue port of the same ...
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Dual Screen problem when trying to maximize the window on the second screen
I am using Ubuntu 12.10. Today I bought a monitor and started using dual screens: one is my laptop's screen, other one is the monitor I bought. Everything seems fine so far except one thing and that ...
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Two monitors connected at the same time on laptop via VGA & HDMI not working?
I have a DELL Inspiron 7520SE laptop with an AMD Radeon HD 7730M graphics cards card. I am trying to output to two monitors at the same time via VGA and HDMI. The laptop is running 12.04. The ...
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Login Wallpaper Spanning Dual Monitors in 12.04
Is there a way to make the background on the login screen span dual monitors rather than being mirrored? I know it's possible for the actual wallpaper when you're logged in but can't find an option ...
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12.10 2nd Monitor not detected Acer H213H
I'm not sure when it happened but Ubuntu 12.10 will not recognize my external monitor.
Ubuntu 12.10 works fine on my Dell laptop, I verified the monitor and its cables are fine.
Thanks
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Slow scrollin since upgrade to 12.10
Since I have upgraded (no clean install) from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10, particular graphical aspects are slow:
Scrolling is really slow: for example in a terminal window, gedit or a browser
Compiz ...
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Dual monitor resolution OK for one user, but garbled for a new user
Ubuntu 12.04 on PC with ATI card using built-in drivers. Gnome classic (no effects)
A dual monitor setup works perfectly for admin user A, with both screens showing at 1280 x 1024.
New admin user B ...
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HP 1940 LCD not recognize on my ubuntu
I use dual screen from my laptop to 19" HP 1940 LCD screen.
However ubuntu only recognized it as unknown monitor with very low resolution 1024x768 unable to reach the maximum resolution the screen ...
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dual screen doesn't work on ubuntu
I'm not an expert in Linux but I'm currently try to learn it myself. Unfortunately I'm stuck here.
So, I'm using Ubuntu 64-bit ( with Unity desktop ) on a laptop.
I get stuck when I try to plug ...
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Can I control brightness on second monitor?
I have a thinkpad (x301) with an external monitor connected via a DisplayPort to HDMI cable. I can control the brightness of the laptop monitor using the keys on the laptop, but I can't work out how ...
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Ubuntu Dual Screen Using Virtual Machine - AMD GPU
I've been searching online and reading tutorials and etc about how to make my ubuntu VM dual screen(x86_64). I have first tried to run these commands:
sudo aticonfig --initial -f
which gave me the ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 triple monitors… so close!
I'm trying to set up 3 monitors using an ATI Radeon HD 5450 and an NVidia 9600 GSO. I know mixing manufacturers is not desirable, but these were the cards I had laying around. After a few days of ...
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Dual Monitor imaging
I'm having an issue when I set the dual image to span. It seems to be centered with black around the image on both sides. I'm wondering how to get a full screen span to eliminate the black around the ...
