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Glances - An eye on your system
Glances is a free software (licensed under LGPL) to monitor your GNU/Linux or BSD operating system from a text interface. Glances uses the library libstatgrab to retrieve information from your system and it is developed in Python.
Installation:
Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run following commands:
sudo apt-get ...
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Seems like the TV as a display is being detected even after being switched off. Just pulling out the dvi cable, if it is easily accessible from your seat, should work ;)
If it isn't, then use the following command to turn of the TV as a monitor.
xrandr --output XXX --mode HRESxVRES --output YYY --off
Here XXX is the name of your primary display. YYY is ...
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I use an script called monitor1 which disables my secondary monitor. It contains this:
#!/bin/sh
#final()
#coding=utf8
# Desactiva el monitor secundari:
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --off
Of course, you'll have to change DVI-I-1 with the name of the monitor you want to disable. To enable both monitors I use other script called monitor2:
#!/bin/sh
#final()
...
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Install latest nvidia drivers
sudo apt-get install nvidia-313-updates
Enable nvidia drivers to manage your graphics
sudo nvidia-xconfig
Then execute
sudo software-properties-gtk which will show you a window like this
and select the latest driver from that list.
And then do
sudo reboot
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KDE desktop metapackages
There are many ways to install the KDE desktop. The kde-standard (http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/kde-standard ) doesn't have the KDE screen setup modules as dependencies. They can be installed later.
KDE screen setup modules
The new: Kscreen
:~$ apt-cache show kscreen
Package: kscreen
Priority: extra
Section: universe/kde
...
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I can't offer a solution, but rather an explanation and some workarounds.
Explanation
This problem is caused because window positions are stored as positive coordinates from the top-left display.
The software doesn't consider any of your monitors to be "secondary", but the top-left display is kind of "primary" because its top-left corner is used as the ...
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I have just answered a similiar question here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1264401#p1264401
In short, this can be done at least in GTK. Although it depends on the application itself to do so, as written in Arch's wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multihead#Separate_screens
With this configuration it is not possible to move ...
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As I switched to XFCE, I am very happy with the XFCE's display swicher. It's as easy as hitting Win+p and selecting the output via arrows and hitting alt+o. Once you remember the shortcuts, it's lightning fast.
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I had a similar problem which I solved quite easily. Although I've a different video card it might works for you.
I've set an .xprofile file in my home directory with the following content:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1366x768 --primary
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024 --left-of LVDS1
I think the lines are quite self explaining and you could ...
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top
top is monitoring Software, listing all the processes with CPU/RAM usage, Overall CPU/RAM usage and more
Also it's mostly installed by default
htop
htop is like an extended version of top. It has all the features from above, but you can see child processes and customize the display of everything. It also has colors.
iotop
iotop is specifically for ...
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I haven't found a way to set a specific monitor (left vs. right) but you can have the notification appear in whichever screen has focus (following the mouse).
You can use dconf editor and go to apps > notify-osd and change multihead-mode to focus-follow
or from the terminal:
gsettings set com.canonical.notify-osd multihead-mode focus-follow
You can ...
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It seems that the console script is burried in the core of libreoffice 4, so upon a quick search of the filesystem for "presenter" I found "PresenterScreen.uno.so" in the /usr/lib/libreoffice/program folder. A simple renaming of that file to PresenterScreen.uno.so.hidethis (or something else) disables the presenter console.
So to recap, open nautilus as ...
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