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

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