Comments on: Ecstatic: XrandR 1.2 means decent Linux Screen Management at Last

By: Roald

Roald — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:46:56 +0000

I’ve tried al xrandr options mentioned above, but alas!
As soon as I change the position of one output, the other changes too.
I have a Radeon X1300 with a DVI and VGA output.
I’ve just finished a fresh install of jaunty.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:08:17 +0000

Thanks!

By: someone

someone — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:55:00 +0000

Very cool. Thanks for the hint about how to get the right numbers for the virtual entry in xorg.conf.

Now, I can extend my dual monitoring to the TV set

By: dvdmeer

dvdmeer — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:55:38 +0000

I have wrote a while ago (and still in development) a GUI for xrandr 1.2.
It’s called Python-RandR. See http://python-randr.dvdmeer.nl. Unfortunately at the moment only in Dutch.

Has been tested with intel, opensource radeon and opensource radeonHD. At the moment radeonHD doesn’t support TV- out. The others do.

With this program you can easily manage your screens. Change resolutions, change tv-format (like PAL and NTSC-M). In a few weeks version 0.7.0 should be released, and is even better. Let me hear if it works for you.

Greetings from Holland.

By: fenidik

fenidik — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:01:55 +0000

Hi. I was propertly setup dual screen on my laptop HP Compaq 6710b + Ubuntu 8.04
LVDS – 1280×800
VGA – 1440×900

xrandr –output VGA –mode 1440×900 –pos 1024×0 –right-of LVDS

But! Then i start VGA, my KDE panels moved to VGA screen. And I want all KDE panels on my laptop. How to setup LVDS be my main screen?

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By: astromme

astromme — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:25:22 +0000

I’m not sure about Xubuntu, but in Ubuntu there is a very nice “Screen Resolution” preference item that is basically an excellent XRandR gui. I’m using it with an intel X3100 card to much success

By: jc

jc — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:57:42 +0000

When I have the graphics driver enabled, running “xrandr” in terminal gives the following printout:
jeff@jc-desktop:~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1200
default connected 1600×1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1600×1200 85.0* 75.0 60.0 100.0
1440×900 60.0
1400×1050 60.0
1280×1024 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0 47.0 43.0 120.0 100.0 90.0
1280×960 60.0
1280×768 60.0
1280×720 60.0
1152×864 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0 47.0 43.0 100.0
1024×768 85.0 75.0 72.0 70.0 60.0 160.0 150.0 120.0 100.0 90.0
1024×480 60.0
960×720 60.0
864×648 60.0
856×480 60.0
848×480 60.0
800×600 85.0 75.0 72.0 70.0 60.0 56.0 160.0 120.0 100.0 90.0
720×576 60.0
720×480 60.0
704×480 60.0
640×480 85.0 75.0 72.0 60.0 160.0 120.0 100.0 90.0
640×400 75.0 60.0
512×384 60.0
400×300 75.0 60.0
320×240 75.0 60.0
320×200 75.0 60.0
———————————————

How can I still make extended desktop work?

I have an ATI Radeon X850XT.
I’m running Xubuntu 8.04 beta.

By: rock

rock — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:03:01 +0000

hi vicky, was wondering if you could help me with my problems. i have an acer travelmate 4001 using ubuntu 7.10 (newly installed). the video card is ati radeon 9600. i have tried many ways of trying to connect my hdtv to my laptop to no avail. i want to be able to play my video files full screen on the hdtv using vlc player on my laptop. i tried following a few guides online to install the driver but still no use. i have installed and uninstalled the driver countless times trying to follow the different guides. i am at a complete loss as to what to do. i really hope you will be able to help. thanks very much!

By: hanz

hanz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:19:50 +0000

On Xubuntu 8.04, is this still the best way of doing things? Or have things in 8.04 been made more userfriendly?