<div dir="ltr">the PLUG brain-trust at work (in all its glory).</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 6:57 PM Jason Spatafore <<a href="mailto:jason_online@spatafore.net">jason_online@spatafore.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Brian,<br>
<br>
For your dual monitor situation, are you using a single head (1 video <br>
card) or dual head (2 video cards)?<br>
<br>
Keep in mind I'm talking cards, not ports on the cards. (Video cards can <br>
have multiple ports. Mine has 2 x HDMI and 1 x DVI)<br>
<br>
Attached is a screenshot using Impress on a single head configuration <br>
with dual monitors. Notice one monitor is the actual presentation (right <br>
side) and the other monitor is the presenter's screen (left side).<br>
<br>
I accomplished this by pressing the F5 key (which is the key to start <br>
the presentation).<br>
<br>
Now, the reason for the question. When you run a dual head <br>
configuration, it gets really tricky to extend desktops between the <br>
heads. This gets especially wonky with nVidia cards, and it <br>
architecturally makes sense on why there's a limitation (memory space). <br>
The only way I've worked around it was to run two desktops, one on each <br>
head. And I was only able to accomplish that successfully using XFCE. <br>
Gnome and KDE didn't play well with multiple head configurations for me.<br>
<br>
I hope this helps. I run Ubuntu 18.04 and the screenshot attached was a <br>
default install allowing Ubuntu to set the dual monitor configuration. I <br>
can likely exchange some config files with you if you wanted to explore <br>
how it self configured. I can say with this setup, I can run steam games <br>
on one monitor while watching Netflix on the other (which is the typical <br>
style of use for multiple monitors). And as you can see, Impress will <br>
allow me to have a presenter screen and slide show screen.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2/16/19 12:38 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:<br>
> For those of you that saw my Hugin presentation at last Thursday's <br>
> meeting you would have noticed that I had some difficulty switching <br>
> back and forth between the presentation and doing a demo of the software.<br>
><br>
> The reason for this is that I was running Libreoffice Impress in dual <br>
> monitor mode so that I can see my notes and the next slide. I could <br>
> solve the problem by just mirroring the display, but that causes <br>
> problems by eliminating my notes and other resources. There is also <br>
> the possibility of using a tablet to control the presentation, but <br>
> that might not be reliable at SCaLE when I do the presentation again.<br>
><br>
> So what I need is a way to display a program on both monitors at the <br>
> same time without having to mirror the display.<br>
><br>
> I think I might have a workable solution by abusing the kmag program <br>
> and setting it's magnification to 1:1, but I wonder if there is a <br>
> better or more purpose built solution to accomplish the same thing. <br>
> If there is, great, I'd love to hear about it, if there isn't then <br>
> this message can serve as a possible solution for others to increase <br>
> the quality of their presentations.<br>
><br>
> Brian Cluff<br>
><br>
><br>
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