> 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
>

Be aware that there are two modules with a similar name; one has a
checkbox on the first tab and requires root privileges; this is the one
you want to use.  The other does not and is an old, broken Ubuntu
holdover.

Tim