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Rendman

Member

Registered: 2010-07-10

Posts: 1

Dual Monitors and Fullscreen games

Hello,

I have been googling this for awhile. I have two identical Dell 20" monitors connected by DVI to my ATI Radeon HD4850. I run both at native resolution which is 1680 x 1050. I am running the testing version of Xorg(1.9). Additionally, I am running the opensource driver (xf86-video-ati) with no xorg.conf.  The problem that I am having is as follows: When I start any fullscreen application (games, either SDL, OpenGL, etc) the second monitor shuts off, and I can see the game/app perfectly on the first monitor. The problem is when I exit. The second monitor never turns back on and I have to use the System->Monitor Preferences applet, to turn it back on. Seems like no problem, but it turns into a pain in the butt pretty quick. Any ideas out there?

Thanks,

Rendman

P.S. I did'nt explicitly mention but I am running xrandr 1.3

Nichollan

Member

From: Stavanger, Norway

Registered: 2010-05-18

Posts: 110

Re: Dual Monitors and Fullscreen games

You could make a script that executes an xrandr command after your full screen application has finished running, like so:

#!/bin/bash
fullscreenapp
xrandr --output OTHERSCREEN --auto