[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Mon Apr 13 16:35:30 EDT 2009


Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I've got it hooked to a projector now and it did auto-detect on boot.
> 
> Function-F8 seems to have no effect.
> 
> I'm still curious how to get Impress to realize I have 2 monitors.  I
> assume it can have presenter notes on the laptop screen and just the
> slides on the projector.
> 
> Under slide show settings, there is a pull down for multiple monitors,
> but it is grayed out, even though I have it hooked to the projector.

You need to configure X to have dual functionality, either via Xinerama 
or xrandr.

> 
> Greg
> 
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Charles Shapiro
> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried it? On my R50, that's part of the BIOS. It works fine under
>> an old copy of Ubuntu, and I'd expect it to work regardless of what OS the
>> machine is running.
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I've never done a demo via linux before.
>>>
>>> I have my laptop dual booting and from windows I can just function F8
>>> (I think) and the display gets duplicated to the external VGA
>>> connector.
>>>
>>> How do I do that for Linux?  (KDE4 if it matters)
>>>
>>> Thanks
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