Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 133814
Dual head needs option to set RightOf or LeftOf and X,Y Offset
Last modified: 2008-04-04 18:51:28 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040926 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: Dual head needs option to set RightOf or LeftOf and X,Y Offset. I have a main CRT in front of me and a LCD to the LeftOf the main. The Dual Head config gui does not let me specify which screen is which and where they are relative to each other. Additionally, the LeftOf LCD is slightly behind and rotated to face me better which makes the pointer seem to move 'up/down' as it tracks between the two screens. If you have access to a Windoze XP box, you can see that the dual head configuration(built-in to XP 'Display Properties') allows you to 'drag' the screens around each other on a X,Y axis in order to correct the slight variances of the space/tilt/rotation of the two screens as they are physically oriented on the physical desk surface. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. RawHide(09/26/04) installed 2. 'Firstboot' gui must be run manually(!?) 3. Attempt to set Dual Head using system-config-display Actual Results: I had to manually edit xorg.conf to set "Screen0" RightOf "Screen1". Not sure how to set X,Y offset, but I believe I've seen the option in the man pages. Expected Results: Ability to set dual head orientation after identifying which screen is 0 and which is 1 by use of the gui config tool. Additional info: Only tool I've seen with better dual head gui set-up, in Linux, is Sax2 in Suse 9.1.
Although it would be great to have the full x/y setup, PLEASE add left/right setup ASAP, it ought to be easy to add, and it would be a tremendous improvement for those of us with our 2nd screen to the left of our main screen.
Mass update: move dual head bugs from FC5 to FC6, no way they can get fixed before FC5 release at this point.
Add to FC6Destop tracker
Hi, feature freeze for fc6 is today, so we're going to have to punt for now. Hopefully in the feature will get away from system-config-display entirely and come up with a much better long term solution. Removing from tracker.
Adding a simple left/right checkbox seems like a fairly easy fix with a high useability payback. Any reason not to ask for this in FC7 ?
*** Bug 141502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Unfortunately I am no longer using Fedora, I have a new job and they have standardized on Ubuntu here. As far as I know (I think I was using FC6 when I finished the old job) all of the notes in here were still valid. But I have not used FC7+. Thanks anyway and good luck!
Thanks for your update