Dual displays on XFCE4 orientation - no option?

[Kaya Saman]

Hi,

does anyone know if it is possible using XFCE4 on a dual-head system to have side-by-side displays?

I know that the NVidia drivers have this option as I use it on my other box running Fedora 15 x86, but my current system is a notebook with an Intel GM45HD graphics card.

I am running Fedora 15 x64 edition.

Is there a tool or something that can do this as the default XFCE4 display GUI is reaally limited to just mirroring displays?

The Gnome display manager handles this really well but I don't know if I need to install Gnome with it or if it will work with XFCE4.....


Thanks!

[bogatron]

I use the following to set up my LCD sitting to the right of my laptop via VGA, you may need to change it a bit to suit your specific needs:

xrandr --output VGA1 --right-of LVDS1

[Kaya Saman]

Thanks so much!

That worked.....


I don't know why the desktop GUI switcher tool couldn't have this built in?? Not that I don't mind using cli or shell scripts but am just talking about from convenience purposed when 'on the go' with not much time to think about stuff.

[AdamW]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'the GUI switcher tool' but if you mean 'the thing that lets you log in to GNOME or Xfce' that's not really its job. GNOME's monitor configuration tool can handle multiple display configuration; it would be up to Xfce to ship the same capability. I don't know, offhand, whether it can do so or not, but you might want to look in the Xfce control panel.

[Kaya Saman]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'the GUI switcher tool'

I actually meant:

Right click on Desktop -> Applications -> Preferences -> Monitor Settings



GDM, KDM, XDM, et...el are desktop login managers and I wasn't referring to them as they are not surposed to deal with where the 'extra' monitor goes within the screen layout.