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Hi All, Sorry I am spamming the forums these days, trying out Fedora KDE for the first time and it's way different than Gnome or XFCE.... I am trying to ...
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    dual monitor only mirror

    Hi All,

    Sorry I am spamming the forums these days, trying out Fedora KDE for the first time and it's way different than Gnome or XFCE....

    I am trying to dual monitor but I can only get it to mirror, no side by side layout. I went to system settings --> display....am I missing something? I have an intel card, I know that it can do the setup that I want because it did in Ubuntu and does in W7 when I'm netflixing. Thanks all
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    You need to enable xinerama which requires the libXrandr and libXinerama library packages.
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    lol I gave up and went back to Ubuntu....basically what I found:

    If I had the monitor plugged in on boot then it showed right, not mirrored, but boot was quite a bit slower (took about 2 minutes)

    If I plugged in after the system was started I could only mirror

    Also I found that xbmc full screen didn't work correctly if I was dual monitoring, I was getting frustrated with the package manager not handling dependencies correctly -- for instance I'd try to remove something and it'd not let me because other things were dependent and not give me an option to remove all of it, but then if I did terminal yum remove it would work no problem (and not remove any other packages so I don't know what was dependent on what).

    Overall, I think I'm just happy with Ubuntu, looking forward to 10.04 and we'll see where I go from there

    thanks for all the help
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