F13 Beta Anaconda Screen Selection

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 20:01 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 08:34 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> >
> >> It is very unfortunate that displays are not mirrored in installation
> >> process any more. There is no reason to have spanned desktop when installing system. I even asked anaconda developers some time ago.
> >> I don't remember the answer precisely, but I guess it was something
> >> like it was too complex to change it just for the installation
> >> process.
> >
> > That's basically it, yeah. There's no very simple way to specify clone
> > mode instead of spanned mode for X, X just doesn't provide a simple way
> > to do it.
> 
> There is an extension called XRandR ... so no it is possible without
> creating an xorg.conf (you can enable and disable it at runtime).

that's roughly equally inelegant, though also a possibility.
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