On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Fedora User <fedora...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What on earth is the difference between "absolute" and "clone of?" > > Furthermore, and I am reasonably sure that this is a dumb question but I > have a brain freeze; Suppose I configure the second monitor above, how > would I get, say, mplayer to play a movie in that space? How do I get > the mouse up there?
XRandR works on a logical display which is typically 8192 pixels by 8192 pixels. Each monitor placed anywhere within that range. Specifying "absolute [x/y]" mode for a port/monitor allows you to place your bottom left pixel of your monitor to any pixel within it's logical range. Specifying "clone of [port]" indicates that the bottom left pixel of that monitor is in the same place as the bottom left pixel of the monitor attached to [port]. This is useful for projectors, for example. If you want one monitor above the other, you can do it by specifying "absolute 0/0" for monitor-1 and "Above [monitor-1-port]" for monitor-2. You could specify an absolute position for monitor-2, but then you'd have to start plugging appropriate values for the position. Once you have done this, you can just drag windows between the monitors as you might expect/hope. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
