[Mageia-discuss] Configuring external monitor display

Fri Apr 20 21:16:30 CEST 2012

On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 20:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
+
+> > On some laptops there's a function key that switches. On mine (HP 
+> > Elitebook/NVidia GT216 Quadra FX 880M) it doesn't, but I found a
+> > package called "disper" that provides a command-line program called
+> > disper that works very well.
+> > 
+> That sounds like the function key to switch between internal and
+> external monitor.  Fn+F5 is supposed to cycle between internal,
+> external or both, but it doesn't work.
+
+Doesn't work for me either in Linux, but I can have a launcher (gnome 2)
+that runs
+    disper -S
+to use the secondary screen, and another that runs disper -s to go back,
+or disper -e to extend the desktop to both.
+
+ATI (OK, AMD) drivers seem to have better xrandr support than nvidia,
+but I still find "disper" more convenient than the GUI. E.g. get up to
+give a talk and double click an icon to start projecting.
+
+Liam
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