hartz
February 12th, 2011, 07:24 PM
Is there a way to get Twinview to become active automatically when I plug in my second monitor?
I have a laptop and when at home I plug in a second monitor. I can then extend the desktop (by enabling twinview) and it works fine. When I suspend and subsequently resume somewhere else, (when the second monitor is no longer attached), I then need to first find the mouse pointer, often somewhere off on the other monitor (Sorry I left my mouse pointer at home :-)
Essentially I want Twinview to activate automatically when I plug the second monitor in, and to disable when I unplug the monitor. Further more Ideally I want it to remember the screen resolutions and as a bonus put windows back to where they were (when and if possible). I am sure other people must have encountered and solved this same niggling dilemma?
Thanx,
_hartz
P.S. Info about my computer:
hartz@my-laptop:~$ lspci -v|grep -i nvidia
\01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nouveau, nvidiafb
hartz@my-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux BCX-laptop 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have a laptop and when at home I plug in a second monitor. I can then extend the desktop (by enabling twinview) and it works fine. When I suspend and subsequently resume somewhere else, (when the second monitor is no longer attached), I then need to first find the mouse pointer, often somewhere off on the other monitor (Sorry I left my mouse pointer at home :-)
Essentially I want Twinview to activate automatically when I plug the second monitor in, and to disable when I unplug the monitor. Further more Ideally I want it to remember the screen resolutions and as a bonus put windows back to where they were (when and if possible). I am sure other people must have encountered and solved this same niggling dilemma?
Thanx,
_hartz
P.S. Info about my computer:
hartz@my-laptop:~$ lspci -v|grep -i nvidia
\01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nouveau, nvidiafb
hartz@my-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux BCX-laptop 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux