Dual monitors, one "desktop"...

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Tue Jun 14 14:32:00 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:24 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> For my Fedora 15 laptop, I have a docking station at work that has two
> monitors connected to it. When I move between desktops, the right
> monitor keeps its content and the left monitor is the only one that
> changes.
> 
> How do I make it so that both displays change? I want to have both
> monitors to be used for each of the virtual desktops, not just one.
> 

You can install gconf-editor and set
/desktop/gnome/shell/workspaces_only_on_primary to FALSE.

However, I should warn you that I've been told by GNOME upstream that
this is an unsupported feature, and I've identified quite a few bugs
with how it behaves.

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