Thanks Romain and Olivier (and Vijay), Romain Bertrand wrote: > Check the Virtual option of xorg.conf (in subsection Display)
Olivier Mehani wrote: > Maybe add the following to your xorg.conf, and have a quick read of [0] > for more details. > ... > [0] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#the_Virtual_screen The page "Xorg RandR 1.2" in the link above was very much worth reading. Created xorg.conf as root using 'Xorg -configure' then added 'Virtual 2480 1050' to each "Display" subsection. e.g. SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Virtual 2480 1050 EndSubSection Now it works like a charm: $ xrandr --output VGA --auto --left-of LVDS --output LVDS --auto and I've added a kludge-like toggle to .fvwmrc + "Dual Head Video%/usr/local/share/pixmaps/vga-dual-16x16.xpm%" \ Exec exec xrandr | grep -q "VGA connected (" \ && xrandr --output VGA --left-of LVDS --auto \ || xrandr --output VGA --off --output LVDS --auto Some lame 16x16 xpm icons: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/images/ Regards, -Lars
