Does OpenSuse support working with dual monitor’s and if so can you direct me to the documentation that will show me how to configure it and cards it works on?
Thanks!..
hi Nasheayah & welcome,
Documentation?
Assuming you are using kde,
under the program select icon (gecco) choose “System Settings”
under “Hardware” select Display and Monitor"
on “Display Configuration” drag your monitor shown on the screen to the required position and choose the required resolution
hth
Thanks for your reply! I kind of jump the gun, I should have waited until I installed it first. Wow! This is awesome, right out of the box during installation it already recognized both monitors, didn’t have to do anything. Right now its updating so if anything go wrong I’ll be back.
Thanks!..
Leap 42.1 recognizes both of my monitors. In the desktop settings, I can switch between the two. However, both monitors display the same content. How can I change that so I can have two different environments on the two monitors. For example, I can run LibreOffice on the left monitor while Firefox runs on the right?
montgoc1:
Did you do that?
One Monitor left or right to the other.
Doh! That’s exactly what was wrong. After making adjustments, etc., and getting the two monitors set up the way I want, periodically on a reboot, it reverts to a single monitor and I need to set up my second display all over again. It is very frustrating. Have you experienced that?
hi montgoc1,
“” Have you experienced that? “”
yes, but not recently
does it still revert to the single monitor again after logging ‘out’ then logging back ‘in’ again with the same ‘user’?
cheers
Yes, but it is quite random. I have everything set up the way I want it (i.e. two screens with independent panels, their own widgets, etc.). I’ll go a few days of shutting down, booting, etc., without any issues. Then every once in a while, I’ll boot and both monitors are displaying the same desktop. I can’t figure out why it reverts to the single desktop.
Thanks.
CM
hi montgoc1,
check that only one systemsettings package is installed
possibly the latest is systemsettings5-5.8.6-3.3.x86_64
when this has been an inconvenience in the past the following command has been used,
(it was placed in the file /home/<USERNAME>/.bashrc
then it ran automatically on each boot)
xrandr --output ‘HMDI-0’ --auto --rotate normal --pos 1680x0 --output ‘VGA-0’ --auto --left-of ‘HMDI-0’
(adjust as necessary for your preferred setup)
for identification of your outputs i.e. HMDI-0 and VGA-0
run the cmd xrandr without any parameters
hth