So the most wonderful thing about setting up a *nix environment for development is the fact that, not matter what, it always seems to be stable. Yeah, even more so than os x which gets the silly spinning wheel.
The problem is that if you have fancy graphics cards / monitors, sometimes linux dual monitor setups get hairy.
Consider the following scenario
1) You need a new linux box.
2) You go on craigs list and find some 16 year old who had a windows box with XYZ fancy s**t installed on it, with 10000Gigs of RAM and 8 Hard Disks, etc etc... a perfect machine for doing really massive, in memory databases to test your new algorithm that has to , say, scan through every ATOM in the PDB looking for a structural blahblahblah. Or maybe you just want to run a bunch of MapReduce jobs to see what all the hype is about. Whatever it is, this weirdo 16 yr old has done all the work for you, building a super box.
3) You go and buy it from him, throw it in the car, and set it up @home. Wipe all the garbage he had on the windows partition off, and set it up with eclipse, Python 3, Leiningan, and Zend , and MySQL. Fresh. Feels good.
4) You look at the second monitor EEEEK! Its a mirror.
5) You go to System Prefs -> Monitors : click all the buttons , and nothing happens. Worse yet, in Kubuntu, it doesnt even think you WANT a second, separate monitor. Your two monitors are the exact same thing ! Its like being @ shitty bar on superbowl day !
6) You google for an hour and run every stupid script you can find. Scripts that launch all kinds of weird, hybrid commandline-user interface programs that are supposed to "fix" your windowing environment. Scripts that use machine learning to reconfigure your Graphics Card. Etc. You have typed "apt-get" so many times that your index finger is filling up with puss.
7) Heres the solution I found : for kubuntu ---
jaylinux@ubuntu:~$ sudo xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of DVI-1
jaylinux@ubuntu:~$ sudo xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of DVI-1
This does it!
I gues the way it works, is it directly reroutes the DVI ports for you, without any fancy interface.
Problem Solved.
The problem is that if you have fancy graphics cards / monitors, sometimes linux dual monitor setups get hairy.
Consider the following scenario
1) You need a new linux box.
2) You go on craigs list and find some 16 year old who had a windows box with XYZ fancy s**t installed on it, with 10000Gigs of RAM and 8 Hard Disks, etc etc... a perfect machine for doing really massive, in memory databases to test your new algorithm that has to , say, scan through every ATOM in the PDB looking for a structural blahblahblah. Or maybe you just want to run a bunch of MapReduce jobs to see what all the hype is about. Whatever it is, this weirdo 16 yr old has done all the work for you, building a super box.
3) You go and buy it from him, throw it in the car, and set it up @home. Wipe all the garbage he had on the windows partition off, and set it up with eclipse, Python 3, Leiningan, and Zend , and MySQL. Fresh. Feels good.
4) You look at the second monitor EEEEK! Its a mirror.
5) You go to System Prefs -> Monitors : click all the buttons , and nothing happens. Worse yet, in Kubuntu, it doesnt even think you WANT a second, separate monitor. Your two monitors are the exact same thing ! Its like being @ shitty bar on superbowl day !
6) You google for an hour and run every stupid script you can find. Scripts that launch all kinds of weird, hybrid commandline-user interface programs that are supposed to "fix" your windowing environment. Scripts that use machine learning to reconfigure your Graphics Card. Etc. You have typed "apt-get" so many times that your index finger is filling up with puss.
7) Heres the solution I found : for kubuntu ---
jaylinux@ubuntu:~$ sudo xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of DVI-1
jaylinux@ubuntu:~$ sudo xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of DVI-1
This does it!
I gues the way it works, is it directly reroutes the DVI ports for you, without any fancy interface.
Problem Solved.
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