Yesterday I had a requirement to set up dual monitors on a Ubuntu system running XFCE. Now Linux has very good graphic driver support so I wasn’t expecting too much trouble. First off checked the onboard graphics, which was AMD, so trundled off to the AMD website and downloaded and installed the upto date driver. No problems there so next it was onto configuring.
Opened up the AMD Catalyst Contol Center where both my monitors where recognised and configured the “Multi-display desktop with 2 displays” setting and voila we have a dual monitor setup. Now at this point I started to think this is too easy what is the catch? The catch as I found out is when you restart the system and all the settings in the AMD Catalyst Control Center revert back to the default of cloned displays. Bugger!!
Enter stage left my trusty friend Google. Apparently you have to save the current session for all the settings to be retained. So on XFCE you go to:
Settings – Settings Manager – Session and Startup
On the Session tab click Save Session.
It took me a while to find this solution so hopefully it will help out someone else.
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hi, the method you talk is not work for me. when i restart the computer, all back to the default config
Interesting. Often it is those little hidden settings that trip a simple task and make it take longer than it should.
Thanks for posting this online for us.