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Extended desktop in ubuntu 9.10

Asked by dooboy

Installed 9.10 on my Dell Inspiron 6400, having run 9.04 as a partition on the same laptop. Never had any problem with extending the desktop to an external samsung monitor, but since upgrade can only 'mirror screens'. Any attempt to set up extended desktop causes the screens to blank and the mouse and keyboard to cease functioning. Have tried using inbuilt display settings, and 'multiple screens' and 'Arandr' from the ubuntu software centre, all with the same results.

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#1

This seems to be because of some issues with X server, or your graphics
card, try disabling compiz and then go to Display and then try extending
screens :)

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Vikram Dhillon

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 23:41 +0000, dooboy wrote:
> New question #93640 on Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/93640
>
> Installed 9.10 on my Dell Inspiron 6400, having run 9.04 as a partition on the same laptop. Never had any problem with extending the desktop to an external samsung monitor, but since upgrade can only 'mirror screens'. Any attempt to set up extended desktop causes the screens to blank and the mouse and keyboard to cease functioning. Have tried using inbuilt display settings, and 'multiple screens' and 'Arandr' from the ubuntu software centre, all with the same results.
>

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dooboy (dooboybrown) said : 		#2

disabling compiz allows me to have an extended desktop but now I can't choose which screen will be the primary output (i.e. have the panels and task bars) which I would like to do if possible, as the default is back to front from the way I'd like it.

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Best Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#3

Have a look here [1], [2], [3]

[1]
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309247

[2]
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/dual-monitors-with-nvidia.html

[3]
http://productivelinux.com/2009/01/23/how-to-set-up-dual-monitors-on-ubuntu-810-intrepid/

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Vikram Dhillon

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 10:49 +0000, dooboy wrote:
> Question #93640 on xorg in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+question/93640
>
> dooboy posted a new comment:
> disabling compiz allows me to have an extended desktop but now I can't
> choose which screen will be the primary output (i.e. have the panels and
> task bars) which I would like to do if possible, as the default is back
> to front from the way I'd like it.
>

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dooboy (dooboybrown) said : 		#4

Perfect. first one solved it straight away. Thanks Vikram.

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dooboy (dooboybrown) said : 		#5

Thanks Vikram, that solved my question.