GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675548
Request for Enhancement re documentation for dual monitors
Last modified: 2012-08-21 11:00:49 UTC
I don't know where to post this, but would it be possible to put the words "dual monitors" at this section of the documentation: http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/2.32/user-guide.html#goscustdesk-70 ? I just set up dual monitors after waiting a year or two to figure it out. I had no help from any documentation, except a Gentoo Linux web page that said just try it first. After I got it working, I dug through your documentation to find this by searching for "Monitor Preferences". This is all I had to do, the missing link to getting dual monitors to work, but I was so mislead by all my searches. I was looking for how to set up dual monitors on Debian. The terms I thought were applicable were "dual monitors", but these words were not in this documentation. My dual monitors worked in Windows 98 two years ago, but I could not figure it out on Debian. Someone directed me to Xinerama, which was a bum steer. I don't know if it really didn't work a year or two ago, or if it was always there and fairly easy to use. If the relevant person could send me their email address, I have a few comments, like the two screen boxes were on top of each other, so I couldn't at first figure out that you should drag them, because I could only see one. I would like to help fix the documentation, so that people who are trying to set up dual monitors on Debian, are directed to the URL above.
2.32 is a really old and outdated version. Is this still an issue in http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.4/ ?
This is the current page on a similar topic: http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.4/display-dual-monitors.html.en The videos don't work library.gnome.org, so that is one issue. This page does not cover the topic of "dual monitors" for a desktop though. Maybe we need that page.
> If the relevant person could send me their email address, I have a few > comments, like the two screen boxes were on top of each other, Please paste them here in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675548
(In reply to comment #2) > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.4/display-dual-monitors.html.en > This page does not cover the topic of "dual monitors" for a desktop though. > Maybe we need that page. Reopening.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #2) > > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.4/display-dual-monitors.html.en > > This page does not cover the topic of "dual monitors" for a desktop though. > > Maybe we need that page. > > Reopening. Page added to master.