On 07/03/14 15:26, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700 don fisher wrote:
Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to have been replaced by something I cannot find.
You don't, it "just works" (except when it doesn't). All the info is supposed to come from the EDID reported by the monitor. Any tweaks are done at runtime via xrandr, xinput, etc. (which may or may not be supported by some GUI setting tool that (maybe) remembers and reproduces the settings via things like the gnome settings daemon).
On my system at home, I have to override the EDID info to make the system believe I have a 47 inch monitor and not a 7 inch monitor with incredibly dense resolution :-). This has all the same info you used to be able to put in xorg.conf, but now it comes in a semi-documented binary file with no good tools to edit it instead of an ascii text file. Such an improvement :-(.
Thanks for getting back. I have a laptop that attach an external monitor to when I am at home. Until today, it always came up in single screen mode, duplicated on both monitors. I had a power failure, and now the system is treating them as two monitors side by side. I am an old timer an prefer the days of the xorg.conf setup. Any ideas on where the button for single screen is hidden?
Thanks Don