[plug] external projector on a laptop

[Paul Antoine]

Gawd... apologies for the appalling English... sigh.

Paul Antoine wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I must say that when using Ubuntu on my Stinkpad(tm) I don't recalling 
> having to set up twinview at all... I just hit the blue Fn+Screen 
> buttons and it switched outputs quite happily.
> 
> P.
> 
> Tim Bowden wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm wanting to set up my laptop to work with an external projector.  I
>> have an nvidia card with the binary drivers.  So far so good.  The
>> problem comes when I setup twinview.  It treats the two monitors as one
>> big desktop- not what I want, particularly as they have different
>> resolutions, and the projector will rarely be connected.  I'd like the
>> two displays to be independent, but still be able to move windows
>> between the two if need be.  What is the recommended solution to this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim Bowden
>>
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