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Started 9 years ago by trekker92
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trekker92

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hello

I tried to deal with the screen settings tool but i failed :
i'm using a laptop, with an external monitor on vga. How could i do to extend the display on the external monitor? without cloning desktop?

thanks you

(maybe it could be a very basic question, a beginner question, but it's so light that i didn't find this one, sry)

Posted 9 years ago #
K3nn3th

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i had the same trouble with my intel graphics chip, du to missing drivers.

looks like you dont have a driver installed.
download and install them first (post question if you dont know what to get)

then get arandr (better GUI than lxrandr for extending a screen). in terminal, paste this:

wget http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/files/arandr-0.1.7.1.tar.gz
tar xzf arandr-0.1.7.1.tar.gz
cd arandr-0.1.7.1

and run via

./arandr

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you can also make a .desktop file for it. ( http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:desktop#lxpanel )
i copied the existing lxrandr.desktop file, changed it to arandr.desktop and edited it to start arandr.

this automatically gives you a start-menu entry

Posted 9 years ago #
xoanan

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Having the same issue and I have the intel driver also. I installed what I thought was the correct driver and I ran ./arandr but I got an error in line 23 of screenlayout gui.py on import gtk. It said that there was no moduled named gtk. Any thoughts?

Posted 9 years ago #
xoanan

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Nevermind. After I installed all the intel drivers and restarted, its fixed.

thanx

Posted 9 years ago #
trekker92

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thanks you it's works perfect ;)

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