Posts Tagged ‘X11’

Linux and Dual Screens

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

dualScreenOne thing that I love about working at Zoom is that they give us the freedom to use the tools that we require to get the job done. For me, that is Sidux, Kate (the all powerful and awesome KDE text editor/IDE), SSH and the command line. Sure I use other tools (Virtual Box for Adobe CS3, Filezilla FTP client, GiMP, etc…) but one of the things that I really love about my computer is how easy it is to set up my dual screen set up. I don’t use any of the native built in tools to set this up, as I have found them sometimes amazing and sometimes terribly lacking. I pull up a BASH prompt, fire off a command, and get to work. Today I want to talk about the amazing command xrandr.

If you want to get your dual screens set up without much fuss, fire up your BASH prompt and click to read some more!

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