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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Configuring external monitor display</H1>
<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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<I>Sat Apr 21 10:07:56 CEST 2012</I>
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On 20/04/12 20:16, Liam R E Quin wrote:
><i> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 20:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
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</I>>>><i> On some laptops there's a function key that switches. On mine
</I>>>><i> (HP Elitebook/NVidia GT216 Quadra FX 880M) it doesn't, but I
</I>>>><i> found a package called "disper" that provides a command-line
</I>>>><i> program called disper that works very well.
</I>>>><i>
</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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</I>><i> Doesn't work for me either in Linux, but I can have a launcher
</I>><i> (gnome 2) that runs disper -S to use the secondary screen, and
</I>><i> another that runs disper -s to go back, or disper -e to extend the
</I>><i> desktop to both.
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</I>><i> ATI (OK, AMD) drivers seem to have better xrandr support than
</I>><i> nvidia, but I still find "disper" more convenient than the GUI.
</I>><i> E.g. get up to give a talk and double click an icon to start
</I>><i> projecting.
</I>><i>
</I>I previously ran Fedora 14 on this netbook, and while the display wasn't
ideal - slightly fuzzy in fact - I could get the whole screen, so it's
not inherently a can't-do-it-in-linux problem. I'll look at disper today.
Anne
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