4K monitors?

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 04 July 2014, don fisher sent:
> Do you know what file the setting are maintained in? I do not use
> Gnome and would like to be able to edit the appropriate files rather
> than being so dependent on GUI interfaces. 

I have to say that there's a certain level of irony in avoiding using a
graphical tool for configuring your graphical user interface...

I'm not sure if this file works with every type of desktop:
~/.config/monitors.xml

For system things, like GDM (the logon screen for Gnome), it goes into 
*that* thing's homespace, rather than /home/username:

i.e. /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml  

KDM may do something similiar (it'll have a different path).

The file begins like this, and may have multiple sections, if you've
switched monitors around:

<monitors version="1">
  <configuration>
      <clone>no</clone>
...[snip]...

If each monitor clones each other, it has "yes" in there.  Otherwise, 
"no" cloning spreads the picture across the monitors.

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George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.