Tag: DisplayConfigGTK

About

Most hardware of the system is configured automatically. But this is not the case for screens and graphic cards. E.g. currently there is no graphical way in a GTK/GNOME environment to extend the desktop to a second screen. Furthermore this tool is required for a failsafe mode of the X server to correct misconfigurations.

Use Cases:

  • Maral plugs a second screen into her laptop and wants her desktop to expand to the new screen.
  • Sepp tends to work at home with his laptop too. He would like to easily switch between his configuration setups: at home he's using an old CRT monitor to extend his laptop screen space, on the road he gives presentation on a projector and at work with he works in front of his shiny new mac cinema display.
  • Vroni wants to change the default resolution for all users.
  • Hirsl wants to change the wrongly detected driver and screen.

From wiki.ubuntu.com/DisplayConfigGTK

 

Change more display settings in Ubuntu

It's no secret I like Ubuntu the best. But what strikes me as odd, is that it does not come standard with a good tool to change the display settings. Sure, you can change the Screen Resolution, but what about cloning to another device, extending the desktop to a second screen, changing the driver, or adjusting the refresh rates to enable more resolutions? There currently is no graphical way to do this in GNOME, so for this you had to manually change the X config file, or run a third party tool like nvidia-settings. But now I found a great GTK tool that can do it for you.