urgency
December 30th, 2011, 10:22 AM
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I'm pretty sure it's an issue with lightdm so I'm putting it here.
I installed 11.10 today and after a couple of hours of fiddling with nvidia drivers and eventually manually editing xorg.conf I have my multi-monitor setup working. The issue was that I have two 1920x1080 monitors where one is in landscape and the other portrait. The only issue that remains is getting the offset right between the two monitors so there isn't a "jump" when you move the cursor in between. I would have liked to do it by adding a vertical offset to the secondary monitor, i.e. have my xorg.conf entry look like
Screen 1 "Screen1" 1920 -380
However I quickly discovered that having a negative value as an offset causes the display manager to unceremoniously fail to start. The solution I came up with was to add the vertical offset as positive on the other screen, i.e.
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 380
Screen 1 "Screen1" 1920 0
This works except it messes with the taskbar/menubar in a strange way. The menu bar (the thing with "file, view" etc at the top of the screen) is no longer visible on Screen0 and the task bar displays but kind of cut off below where the offset is. Here (http://i.imgur.com/QjY1z.jpg) is a screenshot of both monitors so you can see the task bar and the menu bar present on the second but not first monitor.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I installed 11.10 today and after a couple of hours of fiddling with nvidia drivers and eventually manually editing xorg.conf I have my multi-monitor setup working. The issue was that I have two 1920x1080 monitors where one is in landscape and the other portrait. The only issue that remains is getting the offset right between the two monitors so there isn't a "jump" when you move the cursor in between. I would have liked to do it by adding a vertical offset to the secondary monitor, i.e. have my xorg.conf entry look like
Screen 1 "Screen1" 1920 -380
However I quickly discovered that having a negative value as an offset causes the display manager to unceremoniously fail to start. The solution I came up with was to add the vertical offset as positive on the other screen, i.e.
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 380
Screen 1 "Screen1" 1920 0
This works except it messes with the taskbar/menubar in a strange way. The menu bar (the thing with "file, view" etc at the top of the screen) is no longer visible on Screen0 and the task bar displays but kind of cut off below where the offset is. Here (http://i.imgur.com/QjY1z.jpg) is a screenshot of both monitors so you can see the task bar and the menu bar present on the second but not first monitor.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.