greets, good people!
there are worse problems to have, but i'd like to sort this one, if it can be done.
i have a main monitor, which os a 27-inch LG running at 1920x1080. it's a calibrated monitor and i do a lot of pictures, so its happiness is important to me.
on a shelf above it i have an acer 24-inch, at 1920x1200. both are attached to a nvidia 630 card using dvi-d cables.
using the resize and rotate application from trinity 3.5.13.2, my choices are 3840x1200 or just one monitor. to get from one to the other i must send the mouse off the right side of the master screen (the acer, but i think that that's because of how i have 'em coming from the card, and i shall reverse them.
also, my screen background is cut in two. in that it is an application, that makes things kind of weird.
so. is there some configuration that would allow me to have my background on one (or both) of the screens separately? more important, is there some way with krandr to use both screens at native resolution? finally, is there a way to set it up so that i take things off the top of the bottom screen to get to the top one, instead of off to the right?
i figure that it's either fairly simple or all but impossible. and that it's scarcely an earth-shattering issue.
but if anyone knows how to resolve this, pardon the pun, i would much appreciate it.
thanks in advance.
aha!
turns out the solution is not in krandr but in the monitor kde settings. wherein one may drag one monitor atop the other, establish which is the primary, and so on. now, according to krandr, i am running a monitor at 1920x2280. which is pretty cool, though the moon on my desktop is now enormous and cut in two. but, hey, if that's the worst that ever happens . . .
which i report in case it's of use to anybody else. i personally think it is tremendously cool.
On Tuesday 04 February 2014 14:33:36 you wrote:
aha!
turns out the solution is not in krandr but in the monitor kde settings. wherein one may drag one monitor atop the other, establish which is the primary, and so on. now, according to krandr, i am running a monitor at 1920x2280. which is pretty cool, though the moon on my desktop is now enormous and cut in two. but, hey, if that's the worst that ever happens . . .
which i report in case it's of use to anybody else. i personally think it is tremendously cool.
I have side by side moitors, two seoate scrrens, i.e. two backgrounds two sepate application spaces.
Here is the part that determines screen topology, I use an xorg.conf file and I use the nvidia tool towrite it, wich yucan modify if needed..left of right etc.
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1920x1080 +0+0; CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
said Greg Madden:
| I have side by side moitors, two seoate scrrens, i.e. two backgrounds | two sepate application spaces. | | Here is the part that determines screen topology, I use an xorg.conf | file and I use the nvidia tool towrite it, wich yucan modify if | needed..left of right etc.
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thanks very much, greg. as it happens, and i didn't realize this until i experimented a little more after sending note, the right-click-on-desktop "Configure desktop" menu allows for separate configuration also, down to running a separate program -- xplanet, kworldclock, say -- on each desktop. which i tried for a minute or two, then decided to have my moon desktop on the lower monitor and plain black on the top monitor. subject to change.
i'm really liking this.
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Greg Madden