dual monitor automatic setup

[Jack Coats]

I have a former boss who uses 6 different monitors on one system.  One 
wide screen, one TALL screen and 4 regular.
All driven by one Linux computer (previously Mandriva/Mandrake, 
currently Ubuntu).  He always forgets to save
his config so has to re-do it from scratch each time he does a wipe type 
upgrade (like when he went from Mandriva
to Ubuntu).

Just have to configure each separately, but they all go in the same 
config file.

Contact me offline and I will give you his email if you want to ask some 
specific questions, but this is on his desktop.

I did it years ago on my laptop, but I don't remember what I did.  It 
was on an old RedHat distro.
I used it with and without a docking station, where the internal display 
was used as a screen, and the
desktop screen was used ALSO when plugged into the docking station, yes 
they had different
resolutions, and it just worked.  I did not use different accounts, 
since the config is for the system, and
not the user.  I also had a docking station at home, with a different 
size monitor on it. 


ref wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is it possible to have Xorg server use multiple confs based on my
> login ?
>
> I have a setup at work where I use my laptop with a dell monitor
> attached to get dual screens. the dell is a 1280x1024 and the laptop is
> a 1680x1050. This works well.
>
> However, when I come home with the laptop I want to plug it into my LG
> 24" monitor, and have that come up correctly too. This would be
> 1680x1050 + 1680x1050
>
> the laptop has two login accounts, my work account, and my home account.
> I was wondering if it is possible for the login account to be used to
> control the Xserver, so that when I am at work and use login 'a' that I
> get the screen setups correct (along with my work desktop), and then
> come home, login as user 'b' and get my home desktop, along with correct
> recognition of my home screens ...
>
> or I am just asking for the moon ? :)
>
> richard
>
>
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