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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Making the second monitor the only one

Hi,

I've got a cheap Toshiba notebook, Intel video. The built-in monitor, 1280x800, is on the blink; I use the external one, 1280x1024. Unfortunately, I can't tell the KDE System Settings, Display and Monitor, just to disable the wrong one. It stubbornly tries to reach some common denominator; I can't just set 1280x1024 and keep it. Any ideas?

bukwrim

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Registered: 2011-06-10

Posts: 3

Re: Making the second monitor the only one

You could try using xrandr to set up the monitors - something like

xrandr --output INTERNAL --off --output EXTERNAL --mode 1280x1024

should work, where INTERNAL and EXTERNAL are the relevant output names, which you can find from running xrandr without any arguments. See xrandr's man page for more information.