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#1 2017-10-03 15:23:46
- kabads
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Running multi-head with two graphics cards or Twinview?
I have just purchased a monitor for my laptop, where I'd like to run a second screen. Ideally, I would be able to have email on the monitor and then a web browser on the laptop monitor. However, I've never done this before.
The two cards that are in the laptop are:
$ lspci
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
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01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104M [GeForce GTX 870M] (rev a1) I've been looking at the wiki, but am really unsure where to start. The TwinView under Nvidia looks like it might do this, but it looks hard to configure.
Any tips on what the best set up would be for these two cards?
TIA
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#2 2017-10-03 15:46:50
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Re: Running multi-head with two graphics cards or Twinview?
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#3 2017-10-03 16:01:46
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Re: Running multi-head with two graphics cards or Twinview?
Great - thanks. That helps. I've made some progress with the below:
xrandr --output eDP-1-1 --mode 1920x1080 --output VGA-1-1 --mode 1920x1080 --left-of eDP-1-1 Is it advisable to make this permanent or just run it as a script each time I plug the monitor in?
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#4 2017-10-03 16:08:51
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Re: Running multi-head with two graphics cards or Twinview?
This really depends on your use case.
You can create static configlets or bind output detection (provided by either udev, some DE daemon or https://keithp.com/blogs/x-on-resize/ ) to some more sophisticated script or bind various output configurations to shortcuts/buttons/menu entries ...
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