On 04/29/2012 12:07 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
Hi,
I am going to set up a dual monitor system in a couple of days,
and awesome seems to be the software to make maximum benefit from
dual monitors. IIUC tags can be assigned independently to each
screen from the same collection of tags.
But what software should run under awesome to minimise the setup
hassle?
In my experience Ubuntu/gnome detect and enable dual monitors
with little pain. OTOH, I have no need for all the heavy
gnome features. The awesome wiki keeps talking about editing
the X config, which I can do if I have to, but I'd prefer to
save the time. What systems (linux distros) will make awesome
work on dual monitors straight from the box?
The graphics card will be a nvidia one: Gainward GeForce GTX 560Ti,
if that matters.
Any hints and ideas are welcome. I was planning to use Ubuntu as
my starting point, but that plan can be revised.
TIA
My dual monitor setup at work uses an Nvida card. I just set up
twinview using nvidia-settings (or whatever that tool that comes with
the proprietary driver is called nowadays). It generated an xorg.conf
for me which I just copied over to /etc/X11/.
If you want to use nouveau, I would assume any xrandr frontend would
work, though I haven't tried it myself.
Works great with awesome, the default awesome configs work with any
number of screens.
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