{"id":846,"date":"2012-05-29T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.workao.org\/?p=846"},"modified":"2012-05-29T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:42:39","slug":"how-do-i-setup-dual-monitors-in-xfce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/linux\/846","title":{"rendered":"How do I setup dual monitors in XFCE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\nFirst, open up monitor config &#8211; it&#8217;s in <code>Start &gt; Settings &gt; Settings Manger<\/code>, then open the <code>Display<\/code> item.\n\nMake sure both your displays are on. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/remote_image\/2012\/05\/024238OP8.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\">\n\nThen, open a terminal and run this:\n\n<code>xrandr<\/code>\n\nThe output will look something like this:\n\n<code>Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2464 x 900, maximum 4096 x 4096 LVDS1 connected 1024x600+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 220mm x 129mm 1024x600 60.0*+ 65.0\n800x600 60.3 56.2\n640x480 59.9\nVGA1 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x 255mm 1440x900 59.9*+ 75.0\n1280x1024 75.0 60.0\n1280x960 60.0\n1280x800 74.9 59.8\n1152x864 75.0\n1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0\n832x624 74.6\n800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2\n640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0\n720x400 70.1<\/code>\n\nThen, run the following, changing <code>VGA1<\/code> and <code>LVDS1<\/code> to match the appropriate display:\n\n<code>xrandr --output VGA1 --left-of LVDS1<\/code>\n\nNote that you can move change <code>--left-of<\/code> to <code>--right-of<\/code>.\n\nNow, it should work, but you&#8217;ve still got one problem.\n\nIt will disappear after you logout. So, you need to add it to your login items.\n\nHead over to <code>Start &gt; Settings &gt; Settings Manger<\/code>, then open &#8220;Session and Startup&#8221;, add the above command to your login items, and you&#8217;re good to go!\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/remote_image\/2012\/05\/024239Gt6.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\">\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, open up monitor config &#8211; it&#8217;s in Start > Settings > Settings Manger, then o&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}