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Re: [trinity-users] Making a dual monitor setting in Kcontrol endure

From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:52:58 +0000
On Monday 05 November 2012 00:18:35 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 November 2012 22:31:05 Dan Youngquist wrote:
> >> On 11/04/2012 10:26 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> > So is there any way I can persuade Trinity to keep the settings in
> >> > KControl??
> >>
> >> I don't know about KControl, but if you run KRandRTray, you can click on
> >> the icon in the system tray and select the monitor you want, or select
> >> "Next available output" and it'll go to the other one.  Very easy and
> >> foolproof. I use it to switch to the TV and back when playing movies on
> >> a
> >> laptop via S-Video cable.
> >
> > Aptitude tells me that there is no such animal.  Google tells me that
> > there
> > was in 3.5.11. :-(  I'll look again in the morning.  Thanks for the
> > suggestion.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> krandrtray is most definitely available in all versions of TDE!
>
> Also, you may want to look into the Monitor and Display module of
> KControl; this module allows you to set up a systemwide multi-monitor
> configuration that applies automatically on startup.

Thanks, Tim.  That is what I thought, and what I have been trying without 
success to do. :-(    Settings for screen is greyed out, and the settings I 
input disappear when I reboot.

Lisi