I'm rarely jealous of windows users. When I make a presentation using my wide- screen laptop, using a crappy projector that is limited to 1280x1024, the best I can figure is to put the projector 'right of' and the laptop on the left, leaving the laptop at it's native res and the projector at 1280x1024. Works, but awkward - for one thing can't see the presentation on the laptop.
I noticed my colleague (windows 7?) did a sort of clone, where the projector got his 1280x1024, while the laptop kept the native res, but the image was narrowed. Hey, that's just what I need. I guess the world of X, kde, nvidia, etc doesn't do this?
If you are using the proprietary nVidia driver, I believe that you can establish cloned screens through the nvidia-settings application. I'm not sure if nouveau can do it, but you could try google: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MultiMonitorDesktop
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com wrote:
I'm rarely jealous of windows users. When I make a presentation using my wide- screen laptop, using a crappy projector that is limited to 1280x1024, the best I can figure is to put the projector 'right of' and the laptop on the left, leaving the laptop at it's native res and the projector at 1280x1024. Works, but awkward - for one thing can't see the presentation on the laptop.
I noticed my colleague (windows 7?) did a sort of clone, where the projector got his 1280x1024, while the laptop kept the native res, but the image was narrowed. Hey, that's just what I need. I guess the world of X, kde, nvidia, etc doesn't do this?
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George Galt wrote:
If you are using the proprietary nVidia driver, I believe that you can establish cloned screens through the nvidia-settings application. I'm not sure if nouveau can do it, but you could try google: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MultiMonitorDesktop
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com wrote:
I'm rarely jealous of windows users. When I make a presentation using my wide- screen laptop, using a crappy projector that is limited to 1280x1024, the best I can figure is to put the projector 'right of' and the laptop on the left, leaving the laptop at it's native res and the projector at 1280x1024. Works, but awkward - for one thing can't see the presentation on the laptop.
I noticed my colleague (windows 7?) did a sort of clone, where the projector got his 1280x1024, while the laptop kept the native res, but the image was narrowed. Hey, that's just what I need. I guess the world of X, kde, nvidia, etc doesn't do this?
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Clone with 2 different res doesn't work like that. The lower res screen is just one corner of the higher res - and most important - putting the image to be projected into fullscreen mode will cause it to be fullscreen on the laptop - not the projector.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com wrote:
I'm rarely jealous of windows users. When I make a presentation using my wide- screen laptop, using a crappy projector that is limited to 1280x1024, the best I can figure is to put the projector 'right of' and the laptop on the left, leaving the laptop at it's native res and the projector at 1280x1024. Works, but awkward - for one thing can't see the presentation on the laptop.
I noticed my colleague (windows 7?) did a sort of clone, where the projector got his 1280x1024, while the laptop kept the native res, but the image was narrowed. Hey, that's just what I need. I guess the world of X, kde, nvidia, etc doesn't do this?
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On my 7-y/o laptop (running XFCE), you simply select "clone" in the display configuration. On my brand new KDE equipped laptop (which uses the nVidia binary drivers), I can simply select clone in the nvidia-settings.
I must admit I've yet to test it on a non-nvidia based KDE laptop.
BTW, At least on my colleague's Windows 7 and 8 machine, Windows lowers the laptop resolution down to the crappy projector's resolution and there's nothing I can do about it. On the other hand, using nVidia settings I can simply attach the project view to the top left corner of the my laptop display without lowering the resolution.
- Gilboa
Neal Becker wrote:
I'm rarely jealous of windows users. When I make a presentation using my wide- screen laptop, using a crappy projector that is limited to 1280x1024, the best I can figure is to put the projector 'right of' and the laptop on the left, leaving the laptop at it's native res and the projector at 1280x1024. Works, but awkward - for one thing can't see the presentation on the laptop.
I noticed my colleague (windows 7?) did a sort of clone, where the projector got his 1280x1024, while the laptop kept the native res, but the image was narrowed.
That's similar to what I get when I use my notebook with the intel driver. I plug a projector, KDE offers me to set resolutions, I set both LCD and projector to 1024×768, and on the LCD, I get 1024×768 (cloned from the projector) zoomed to 1200×800 and letterboxed left and right to the native 1280×800.
Hey, that's just what I need. I guess the world of X, kde, nvidia, etc doesn't do this?
Your problem there is nvidia. Its support for XRandR is broken and incomplete. Try Nouveau.
Kevin Kofler
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Your problem there is nvidia. Its support for XRandR is broken and incomplete. Try Nouveau.
Actually, the nVidia v3xx series is now XRandR v1.2/1.3 compliant.
- Gilboa
Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Your problem there is nvidia. Its support for XRandR is broken and incomplete. Try Nouveau.
Actually, the nVidia v3xx series is now XRandR v1.2/1.3 compliant.
- Gilboa
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I've tried this both on nvidia and on nouveau - I don't see any difference.
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