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Yes, it supports multiple monitors in limitless arbitrary positions. If you want a monitor to the right hand side, one mounted behind you and one above you then
by orf 9y ago
Yes, it supports multiple monitors in limitless arbitrary positions. If you want a monitor to the right hand side, one mounted behind you and one above you then you can configure this.
However if you want three monitors lined up side by side, this seems to be ridiculously hard to configure at least in Ubuntu. The monitor drag-drop interface in Ubuntu is the worst I have ever seen. We recently had three new hires and had to go through the traumatic experience of setting this up for each of them.
- afghanPower 9y agoman xrandr
- vosper 9y agoTo expand on this, you can easily do something like: xranrdr -d :0 --output VGA-2 --right-of VGA-1 xranrdr -d :0 --output VGA-3 --right-of VGA-2 That would line up your three monitors in a row. I've been using it to automate testing of a multi-window Electron app and it works very well. You can do grids, columns, a cross - whatever...
- digi_owl 9y agoSadly Gnome is a confounding variable in all this. They have decided that they will only do whole number scaling, and Unity (up to 7, Unity 8, now a community project, was to be based on Qt) is based on GTK/Gnome. Frankly the Linux DE have been crapifying every size the DEs (Gnome in particular) figured they knew better how to do the underlying stuff than X11.