[Mageia-discuss] Configuring external monitor display

[Liam R E Quin]

On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
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> I like to use an external monitor when doing more serious work on my
> netbook.  As far as I can see there is nothing in MCC for setting that
> up, so I assume I have to use System Settings.  However, that too only
> offers me the settings for the netbook's display.

I think "system settings' is a kde thing, not sure.

On some laptops there's a function key that switches. On mine (HP
Elitebook/NVidia GT216 Quadra FX 880M) it doesn't, but I found a package
called "disper" that provides a command-line program called disper that
works very well.

Liam

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