Re:Newbie Question (Score 2, Interesting)

It's true. Dual monitors in linux with gnome have been a real pain compared to Windows or OS X. I've always hated the fact. HOWEVER, I'm excited, because ibex does things with dual screens right (or at least tons better) on my laptop that previously in hardy didn't work right at all. Details: 1.) Hardy wouldn't let me switch to dual screens if I started up with just the laptop screen unless I killed X (by whatever method) and then logged back in. NOW, I have to kill X the first time after it sets up a virtual screen for me, and then it's fine after that. 2.) If I fullscreened or maximized a window in hardy on a dual screen setup, it would maximize across both screens usually (but not always...). This isn't the case now, and everything but flash vids will fullscreen in the window they previously existed in (with the exception to flash...which has a bug, and will go on your primary display...grrrrrr) 3.) In hardy, my dual monitor setup would have to be tweaked manually to be useful, because the screen resolution gui did NOTHING on my chipset. This seems to have been fixed. It worked just fine with NO xorg.conf tweaking. Your millage will probably very, but I really hope not cause I'm really quite satisfied. I'm running a pretty well supported dell inspiron 1525 with intel 965gm graphics (also known as x3100) with both 32 bit and 64 bit ibex beta, latest updates.