On Thursday 21 May 2009 03:38:38 sara fink wrote: > Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are > specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc.
I have the tool - xrandr works perfectly. Also, ubuntu resizes the screen when the new monitor is plugged/unplugged, I just don't know what it runs. > > I couldn't find so far a script that runs when the 2nd screen is plugged. > As far as I know, xorg.conf does this. My logic says that a fork should be > created. you can check with the command pstree. > http://www.linfo.org/pstree.html > > Other way to check if there is a script that runs is to use the following > command when you are at / > grep -ri <expression> * > > This will look recursively through all the file system and find if there is > such a script. Good idea, I'll try and report back. - Aviram _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il