> > Yes, GNOME is trying to make sure you can see both panels in both monitors. > >> 09:07 a...@danny/x86_64 [linux-2.6-stable.git] >xrandr >> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 4096 x 4096 >> VGA1 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) >> 408mm x 255mm <snip> > Turn off VGA via the GNOME Display Preferences (or with xrandr -o VGA > --off) and GNOME will reposition the panels to align with the larger > remaining screen.
Hmmm xrandr doesn't seem to be having any effect on Gnome, although if I turn on the second monitor I get a "No Signal" instead of a cloned output. 23:28 a...@danny/x86_64 [~] >xrandr --output VGA1 --off 23:30 a...@danny/x86_64 [~] >xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 2048 x 2048 VGA1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1440x900 59.9 + 1280x1024 75.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 DVI1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 459mm x 296mm 1680x1050 59.9*+ 1280x1024 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 Is there a setting I can add to my xorg.conf that will force the VGA1 to be off when the system first starts X? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ http://www.half-llama.co.uk _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
