- https://www.maketecheasier.com/how-to-setup-dual-monitors-with-xrandr/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RandR
My current employer gives me the opportunity to get familiar with quite a lot of his employees – they keep assigning a new desk to me every now and then, like once a week. I find making new friends and extending my social (scientific) network quite interesting and helpful.
And “change” is the challenge, that faces you with a plenty of tasks and experiences – and last not least extends your compentence 😎
Today I am settling at a desk with just one monitor. The desk’s monitor had been resisting to the charms of a second 19″ monitor, but I don’t really agree to that kind of reduced working conditions. I found the confirmation and the support of the sys admin (our connection: “.ro” ancestry 😆 ). But after I physically attached the 2nd screen (both through DVI), the left and the right monitor showed up as right and left. On my own SUSE Linux I would start yast straight away, but at work the sys admin was not around for a while …, so no yast right now.
But another helpful colleague pointed me to xrandr – and bingo!
Some web research lead to me this:
# lists the available monitors and their ids: $ xrandr -q … # switches the logical side-by-side order: # (maybe you will need it the other way round) $ xrandr --auto --output DVI-I-2 --right-of DVI-I-3
Maybe somebody out there will find this text helpful. Writing it did in fact help me coping with the “pain of learning” 😯