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New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups

Posted by timothy on from the more-magic-always-welcome dept.

An anonymous reader points out developer Àlex Fiestas's work on multiple monitor configuration for Linux. In particular, the screen manager that he and Dan Vrátil are working on — KScreen — gives KDE users a utility "making the configuration of monitors either auto-magical or super simple." This is one thing that's certainly gotten much better in recent years for Linux GUI users in general, but the video in the linked post makes me a little envious — another good reason to swap desktops once in a while.

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  1. The only "new" stuff was after 2:40 by gQuigs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Basically..
      * it will remember what you configuration was used with that monitor
      * when you close your laptop it will go to the native resolution of the attached screen

    I don't even know how new those are, but I've never personally used (or noticed) either of them before...

    Everything else, I've been using succesfully since I started using laptops on both Windows and Linux.

  2. Re:Yes, this is amazing by HJED · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is one of the features that I constantly have to wrestle with on Linux (which I use as my main OS), there is currently no real multi-screen support in a major distro and what support there is breaks regularly during updates. (This includes things like full screen flash, changing settings without rebooting, etc). I hope this will work with nvidia drivers, but from past experience I doubt it.

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