barrymcclellanduk
August 4th, 2014, 09:37 PM
Hi,
I've tried finding a solution to my issues but maybe I am a unique snowflake :)
I have an old Laptop (Dell Inspiron 1720) with a broken screen so I decided it could be my media box/Plex server.
I only had an Ubuntu 12.04 CD laying around (been a long time since I took a look at Ubuntu, last time I really used it was Edgy). So I installed 12.04 and upgraded it to 14.04. All went well. Installed the nvidia drivers and the performance jumped (Although it still won't remember my settings for disabling the laptop screen even if I run it as GKSU and save the xorg.conf from within...) - note: I don't have any blank CDs and the laptop won't boot from USB
I decided to see how much of a performance boost I would get from switching to the Lubuntu desktop so I installed the Lubuntu-Desktop bundle, rebooted and switched to Lubuntu at login.
Now, the major issue starts here. The laptop screen AND the external monitor are powered on (not usually an issue as I just usually disable it once I'm in and get on with my life) but it has it set to one large desktop and I'm at the right, I can move the mouse off the left of the screen, essentially helpless. I've tried hitting Alt+F2 to get up the Run prompt but I can only assume it's appearing on the "left" side of the screen, so I've tried typing the command for nvidia settings, but again, it must be appearing on the left of the screen (well, I assume so as I can't see it).
Any ideas? It's been a long time since I've used linux as a desktop so I'm feeling very novice-like
Thanks
I've tried finding a solution to my issues but maybe I am a unique snowflake :)
I have an old Laptop (Dell Inspiron 1720) with a broken screen so I decided it could be my media box/Plex server.
I only had an Ubuntu 12.04 CD laying around (been a long time since I took a look at Ubuntu, last time I really used it was Edgy). So I installed 12.04 and upgraded it to 14.04. All went well. Installed the nvidia drivers and the performance jumped (Although it still won't remember my settings for disabling the laptop screen even if I run it as GKSU and save the xorg.conf from within...) - note: I don't have any blank CDs and the laptop won't boot from USB
I decided to see how much of a performance boost I would get from switching to the Lubuntu desktop so I installed the Lubuntu-Desktop bundle, rebooted and switched to Lubuntu at login.
Now, the major issue starts here. The laptop screen AND the external monitor are powered on (not usually an issue as I just usually disable it once I'm in and get on with my life) but it has it set to one large desktop and I'm at the right, I can move the mouse off the left of the screen, essentially helpless. I've tried hitting Alt+F2 to get up the Run prompt but I can only assume it's appearing on the "left" side of the screen, so I've tried typing the command for nvidia settings, but again, it must be appearing on the left of the screen (well, I assume so as I can't see it).
Any ideas? It's been a long time since I've used linux as a desktop so I'm feeling very novice-like
Thanks