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trekker92

Member

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 54

extended desktop

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)

K3nn3th

Member

Registered: 2014-09-13

Posts: 194

Re: extended desktop

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

xoanan

Member

Registered: 2011-04-01

Posts: 110

Re: extended desktop

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?

xoanan

Member

Registered: 2011-04-01

Posts: 110

Re: extended desktop

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

thanx

trekker92

Member

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 54

Re: extended desktop

thanks you it's works perfect