[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[Greg Freemyer]

Mike,

I've sort of got it working.

I've enabled Xinerama and now have dual head functionality with the
heads side by side.

I then launch Impress and it shows on just my laoptop screen.  But,
the slide show settings pull down box for multiple monitors is still
grayed out.

I go ahead and launch the presentation anyway, the presentation is
displaying on the projector and I have the Impress window on my laptop
screen.  That seems good.

But, if I advance the slide show, the Impress window is not advancing in sync.

If this is something that should work, I'll take my discussion to the
opensuse mailing list, since that is what I'm running and it is
sounding distro specific to me at this point.

Greg

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 16:08 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> I've got it hooked to a projector now and it did auto-detect on boot.
>
>> Function-F8 seems to have no effect.
>
>> I'm still curious how to get Impress to realize I have 2 monitors.  I
>> assume it can have presenter notes on the laptop screen and just the
>> slides on the projector.
>
>        Now THAT's a horse of a different color.
>
>> Under slide show settings, there is a pull down for multiple monitors,
>> but it is grayed out, even though I have it hooked to the projector.
>
>        Ok...  That tells me you, at least, have OpenOffice 3.  Ubuntu, that
> would be GoOO 3.  That feature was not available earlier.
>
>        This gets a little touchier.  I've played with it a bit under Fedora on
> a Lenovo T60p laptop.  The ATI Radeon drivers are a never ending source
> of frustration.  What you have to do is change some of your display
> settings to take it out of "Mirror" (the default where the same thing
> shows up on both/all screens).  On Fedora it's under System ->
> Preferences -> Hardware -> Screen Resolution.  Uncheck "mirror" and try
> and set up the two screens independently.  THEN launch Impress.
>
>> Greg
>
>        Regards,
>        Mike
>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Charles Shapiro
>> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Have you tried it? On my R50, that's part of the BIOS. It works fine under
>> > an old copy of Ubuntu, and I'd expect it to work regardless of what OS the
>> > machine is running.
>> >
>> > -- CHS
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> All,
>> >>
>> >> I've never done a demo via linux before.
>> >>
>> >> I have my laptop dual booting and from windows I can just function F8
>> >> (I think) and the display gets duplicated to the external VGA
>> >> connector.
>> >>
>> >> How do I do that for Linux?  (KDE4 if it matters)
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
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