I picked up a free monitor today, a Samsung S24C230L. The native resolution is 1920x1080, and it's connected via DVI. The existing monitor has a native resolution of 1680x1050 and is plugged into the analog VGA port. The NVIDIA X Server Settings seem to agree, so what's up with the display on the second monitor? https://photos.app.goo.gl/M1R9MQnDMCaD7qca6 When I try saving the X Configuration File, it warns me that I should use relative positioning for the second display, instead of absolute positioning. Maybe that's the problem, but I can't find that setting anywhere. Got any ideas? -- Rich
Restarting the display manager fixed it. On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 8:26 PM Richard Klein <rich@richardklein.org> wrote:
I picked up a free monitor today, a Samsung S24C230L. The native resolution is 1920x1080, and it's connected via DVI. The existing monitor has a native resolution of 1680x1050 and is plugged into the analog VGA port. The NVIDIA X Server Settings seem to agree, so what's up with the display on the second monitor? https://photos.app.goo.gl/M1R9MQnDMCaD7qca6 When I try saving the X Configuration File, it warns me that I should use relative positioning for the second display, instead of absolute positioning. Maybe that's the problem, but I can't find that setting anywhere.
Got any ideas?
-- Rich
It's been my experience that dual, tri and even quad monitor setups just "work" these days. Though I did hit a funny one the other day, I had a co-worker who discovered that the the maximum number of xterms he could have running was ~240. I pointed out that gterm/mterm or any of the other tabable terminals don't suffer this limitation but he's old school and wants to use xterm... It should be noted he also actively uses more than 36 desktop pages as well where these windows were strewn across. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 6:47 AM Richard Klein via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Restarting the display manager fixed it.
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 8:26 PM Richard Klein <rich@richardklein.org> wrote:
I picked up a free monitor today, a Samsung S24C230L. The native resolution is 1920x1080, and it's connected via DVI. The existing monitor has a native resolution of 1680x1050 and is plugged into the analog VGA port. The NVIDIA X Server Settings seem to agree, so what's up with the display on the second monitor? https://photos.app.goo.gl/M1R9MQnDMCaD7qca6 When I try saving the X Configuration File, it warns me that I should use relative positioning for the second display, instead of absolute positioning. Maybe that's the problem, but I can't find that setting anywhere.
Got any ideas?
-- Rich
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Tim> It's been my experience that dual, tri and even quad monitor Tim> setups just "work" these days. Though I did hit a funny one the Tim> other day, I had a co-worker who discovered that the the maximum Tim> number of xterms he could have running was ~240. Was that because he's hit some sort of limit on the number of open file descriptors for his login, or something like that? Can you give us more details on this issue? First I've ever heard of it and I'm a big big xterm user. :-) I like minimal terminals that don't waste screen real estate. Tim> I pointed out that gterm/mterm or any of the other tabable Tim> terminals don't suffer this limitation but he's old school and Tim> wants to use xterm... It should be noted he also actively uses Tim> more than 36 desktop pages as well where these windows were Tim> strewn across. He must cry when his session gets logged out and he has to rebuild all his setup work, even if it does snapshot all those terminal windows, etc. I'm just amazed at that level of keeping track of windows....
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