On Monday 22 Mar 2010 5:35:27 pm steve wrote:
On 03/22/2010 04:25 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Monday 22 Mar 2010 4:18:09 pm Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
I have an acer aspire 4720z. This has fn+f6 hot key that displays
either only projector, both laptop and projector and only laptop. This
works perfectly in kde. In gnome on the other hand, Everything appears
on the projector screen, but on the laptop only the top bar and bottom
bar are available. The rest of the screen is blank. The hot key has no
effect. Any clues?
forgot to add that this is fedora 11.
Well, what you are seeing is a 'spanned' desktop (ie: both laptop and
projector are part of *one* single spanned desktop). To choose the
behavior you described, ie: the display on either one screen or a mirrored
display, you can try "System->Preferences->Display".
Note, one annoying little glitch is sometime both monitors are detected but
one shows up 'on-top' of the other, so until you 'drag' the one on top you
would not see the other.
For spanning desktop drag any of the monitors to the position you prefer
(ie: left or right of laptop display). For display a single 'non-spanned'
desktop on both screens, select Mirror screens. And for using only a
single screen, choose the one you do not want to use and select 'off'.
Let us know if it works. If it does you can select the "Show displays in
panel" checkbox to quickly launch the interface.
BTW: using spanned desktops is /much/ more convenient than mirrored or
individual screens once you get used to it.
