Howard Berry wrote: > Windows on my Vaio laptop. In windows you can toggle the display by > pressing Fn+F7. > I want to use Ubuntu Intrepid on the same laptop for my presentation.
If the F-keys fail, use the Screen Resolution tool under System - Preferences: http://beginlinux.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-resolu tion-setup/ If your graphics card recognises the second display, you'll see two rectangles, one for your LCD laptop display, one for the projector/external monitor. The easiest option may be to select "clone" which will mean both displays show the same thing (my preference). You can also click on the rectangle representing the projector/monitor and select the resolution from the drop-down menu. Initially the resolution may be set to "OFF" and this default setting does exactly what it says on the tin; you need to pick a resolution which is something other than "OFF", such as 800x600, to turn the external monitor on. There's an interesting difference between Hardy 8.04 and Intrepid 8.10 here. Hardy won't let you clone monitors of different shapes (eg. you can't clone both a 4:3 and a widescreeen monitor together), whereas Intrepid will allow this. If you clone a 4:3 onto a widescreen display in Intrepid, then Intrepid will stretch the desktop on the wider monitor, but the Gnome toolbars will not stretch into those areas. Although initially counter-intuitive, once you've got your head round it, it's a very neat solution, IMHO. If you do NOT clone the displays (or if you clone monitors of different sizes in Intrepid), you can drag the rectangles around so that, for example, the projector becomes an extension of your laptop display to the top, left or wherever. If all else fails, you can write a script to call xrandr. The xrandr command controls graphical desktop outputs, and allows you to set VGA, DVI, TV outputs, both in terms of turning them on/off and more complex setups. http://navetz.com/v/132/Simple-dual-monitor-setup-with-XrandR-in-Ubuntu- Linux Such an xrandr script is exactly what the F-keys call anyway IIRC. You can actually go into the acpi (IIRC) directories and edit the scripts to do something particularly fancy, if you're particularly adventurous, bored or confident. Andrew Oakley Head of Software Development Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) 95 Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1HZ T 01242 211460 F 01242 211122 W www.hesa.ac.uk _____________________________________________________________________ Higher Education Statistics Agency Ltd (HESA) is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England at 95 Promenade Cheltenham GL50 1HZ. Registered No. 2766993. The members are Universities UK and GuildHE. Registered Charity No. 1039709. Certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001. HESA Services Ltd (HSL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HESA, registered in England at the same address. Registered No. 3109219. _____________________________________________________________________ This outgoing email was virus scanned for HESA by MessageLabs. _____________________________________________________________________ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
