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Dell Inspiron 8600
Graphics card: GeForce FX Go5200 64M
Driver: nvidia-173xx from AUR
Window Manager: xmonad
I am trying to set up my laptop to be able to attach and disconnect an external monitor, and I am having some problems which I believe are related to the old driver version. If I use xinerama, then RanrR is disabled, therefore on-the-fly screen resolution and monitor changes are impossible. If I do not, then I have exactly one monitor in xrandr's output called default, no matter how many physical monitors I have connected. I am currently using twinview via disper and nvidia-settings.
The problem is that none of my applications know that there are two monitors, which causes problems all over the place. I do not believe that I will ever have two monitors according to the software (please correct me if I'm wrong), therefore I am ok with faking it. Is there any way to get the resolutions of the physical monitors? I can get the overall size of the whole thing via xrandr. Is there any way into fooling programs like youtube and fullscreen games into thinking that there are two monitors, not one? I have figured out how to fool XMonad, so long as I can get the resolutions of the monitors.
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