{"id":65,"date":"2009-12-02T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-12-02T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T14:32:39","slug":"karmic-ate-my-dual-monitor-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Karmic ate my dual monitor setup, and how to fix this"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently upgraded from Linux Mint 7 (based on ubuntu 9.04) to Mint 8 (based on 9.10), losing my dual monitor setup in the process. I have the gnome panel set on the large screen (DVI1), with the small 15″ VGA-connected monitor displaying a status page to its right. <\/p>\n

In order to get the panel to display on the DVI display again (karmic put it on the 15″ vga one), I found the following command after a bit of googling: <\/p>\n

xrandr --output DVI1 --mode 1680x1050 --output DVI1 --primary --left-of VGA1 --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

The “–primary” option seems to have been the key to get karmic to recognize the bigger monitor again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently upgraded from Linux Mint 7 (based on ubuntu 9.04) to Mint 8 (based on 9.10), losing my dual monitor setup in the process. I have the gnome panel set on the large screen (DVI1), with the small 15″ VGA-connected monitor displaying a status page to its right. In order to get the panel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}