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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Configuring external monitor display</H1>
<B>Liam R E Quin</B>
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<I>Fri Apr 20 21:16:30 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 20:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
><i> > On some laptops there's a function key that switches. On mine (HP
</I>><i> > Elitebook/NVidia GT216 Quadra FX 880M) it doesn't, but I found a
</I>><i> > package called "disper" that provides a command-line program called
</I>><i> > disper that works very well.
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</I>><i> That sounds like the function key to switch between internal and
</I>><i> external monitor. Fn+F5 is supposed to cycle between internal,
</I>><i> external or both, but it doesn't work.
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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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