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Bug 675548 - Request for Enhancement re documentation for dual monitors
Request for Enhancement re documentation for dual monitors
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-user-docs
Classification: Core
Component: user-guide
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Maintainers of Gnome user documentation
Maintainers of Gnome user documentation
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-06 05:25 UTC by elindarie
Modified: 2012-08-21 11:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description elindarie 2012-05-06 05:25:38 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.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-05-06 20:43:50 UTC
2.32 is a really old and outdated version.
Is this still an issue in http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.4/ ?
Comment 2 Tiffany Antopolski 2012-05-06 22:50:34 UTC
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.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2012-05-26 21:04:29 UTC
> 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
Comment 4 André Klapper 2012-08-16 09:20:42 UTC
(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.
Comment 5 Michael Hill 2012-08-21 11:00:49 UTC
(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.