Not using Dual Monitors yet, but...

[Georgetoon]

KDE 4 supports it, right?   Just plug in monitor one and mointor two and boot up.  Right?

[scoundrel]

kde supports dual monitors ..not sure if it works that way though.. but there is a settings menu in KCC

[T6]

also remember that sometimes, depending on your video card there is extra settings that can be set in the video card settings menu, mostly doing this more easy but theoretically is as easy as that

i remember a old post where you could specify in the xorg.conf file what is what and what it shows but maybe that has changed over the years?

[Xenaflux]

two links which may or may not be interesting to some people

http://linux.die.net/man/5/xorg.conf


http://linux.die.net/man/1/nvidia-xconfig

Xena

[Georgetoon]

I just though tit was neat, with Win7, that you simply plug n monitor one and then monitor two and then they both become your desktop.  You can pull things from one monitor to another.

Having this in PCLinuxOS  with the same ease would be wonderful.  I'd put it work right away. I can see having the Gimp work are on the main screen and tool panels on the second screen.  And, for all I know, it may be available right now for PCLinuxOS in the same exact way.

Still, it's something down the road for me, but I sure would make use of it.

[ElCuervo]

I have one box running two monitors with Windows 7 and PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta2. It used to spread out the desktop just fine with PCLinuxOS until I updated to the beta version. Now the ATI graphics card driver can only handle the two monitors without the spread (i.e., identical desktops on each monitor). In the past, I've had to resort to downloading and installing the driver from ATI/AMD to get the xinerama spread-out; for some reason, the PCLinuxOS drivers for this ATI 9600 card have always been problematic for me in this regard. If it doesn't get sorted by the time the final version arrives, I'll probably give the OEM driver another go. That fallback has always worked for me so far.

I did notice somewhere else in the forum that Texstar is messing with the xorg configuration for the ATI cards, BTW.