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Re: [trinity-users] Thinkpad 200s, dual screens, setup

From: Nick Koretsky <nick_koretsky@...>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 11:57:35 +0300
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:18:48 +0000
Uwe Brauer <oub@...> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am using a Thinkpad X200s with a Intel Graphic card which supports
> dual screens. I have installed first Kubuntu 14.04 and then trinity on
> top of that (I know this approach is not recommended. It would have been
> better to use the trinity Live CD, but I don't want to reinstall
> everything).
> 
> Now I found out about dspdfviewer which allows (for beamer latex
> generated pdf) to show the transparencies in two screens.
> 
> I tried that out with my laptop being connected to a external LCD
> screen, however my laptop screen only was cloned and the dspdfviewer
> developers told me to try out extended desktop mode.
> 
> I looked up a bit the trinity kontrol center but could not find anything
> relevant.

TCC->System Administration->Monitor&Display

> 
> So a pointer would be very well come. I would not mind a link to a
> command tool such as xrand (which was recommended to me as well).
> 

Well you can use xrandr. There is also a visual fronted to it called arandr.


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