Connecting a second monitor

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 16:43:51 -0700,
  jd <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I clicked System -> Administration -> Display
> 
> I do not see anywhere how I can configure an external monitor
> connected to the same graphics card (i.e. NOT dual head),
> but with different resolution settings.
> Interestingly, the second monitor is automatically
> treated as a span of the built-in laptop monitor, 
> which is not what I want.

I think xrandr is the program that should let you do stuff like that.