[Novalug] F16 and MultiScreens
Nick Danger
nick@hackermonkey.com
Wed Nov 30 21:01:35 EST 2011
On 11/30/2011 05:05 PM, Nino R. Pereira wrote:
> I had the earlier question on this topic. Let me ask:
>
> What is Openbox? I don't have it. And, what does xrandr have to
> do with Openbox? On my system, can I simply say
>
> xrandr --output VGA-1 --left-of DVI-0)
>
> Nino
>
openbox is a window manager, like gnome or kde, just very basic.
I do the same thing using xrandr and it works just fine. My question is
why do I have to do it at all? On F14 I get dual screens working fine
once the kernel finishes booting and it goes into GDM. But then I am
running regular full gnome on that (v2.x something?)
I also think someone might have given me a clue, I think I am running
the nVidia driver on F14 versus the open source nv (?) driver on F16.
That driver install process might have tweeked the settings to get the
dual monitors to come on earlier.
I will investigate more tomorrow when I am back in the office. Luckly I
have been building my new F16 box in parallel to the F14, so I didn't
have to move over immediately.
Nick
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