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