Dual Monitor Layout und Taskbar Issue
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:30 am
Hi Together,
This is my first post here. I didn't find anything on that special problem in the forums.
I just bought a nice shiny Lenovo Thinkpad T420 with a Docking Station (Mini Dock 3). I am just switched to LMDE and almost everything was running out of the box, yet I am experiencing problems with my monitors.
My setup is as follows:
I connect my Laptop to the Docking station. The docking station is connected to an external LCD screen.
I want the following:
While docked, the laptop display and the external screen should be running with the external screen set up "on top" of the normal screen.
If not docked, only the laptop display should be running.
When I boot while the laptop is docked I can set up the layout in System/Appearance and everything is doing what it is supposed to do. If everything stays docked, after restart everything is still fine.
The problem is when I undock and redock. Undocking works as expected, but after redocking I need to set up the external-screen-on-top-of-laptop-screen manually. My usual approach would have been to manually try to hack that into xorg.conf (at least thats what I did with my old Nvidia/Twinview configuration) but in LMDE there is no xorg.conf anymore. I think this if because of this new kernel setting mode (whatever that means).
The next problem is related: When I have the big LCD screen (where the panels are) on top of the other screen maximizing a window extends it "under" the lower panel. Any ideas on that?
Help would be very appreciated. If I finally get everything to work, I'll contribute a T420-LMDE review to thinkwiki.com
Cheers,
Bernhard
This is my first post here. I didn't find anything on that special problem in the forums.
I just bought a nice shiny Lenovo Thinkpad T420 with a Docking Station (Mini Dock 3). I am just switched to LMDE and almost everything was running out of the box, yet I am experiencing problems with my monitors.
My setup is as follows:
I connect my Laptop to the Docking station. The docking station is connected to an external LCD screen.
I want the following:
While docked, the laptop display and the external screen should be running with the external screen set up "on top" of the normal screen.
If not docked, only the laptop display should be running.
When I boot while the laptop is docked I can set up the layout in System/Appearance and everything is doing what it is supposed to do. If everything stays docked, after restart everything is still fine.
The problem is when I undock and redock. Undocking works as expected, but after redocking I need to set up the external-screen-on-top-of-laptop-screen manually. My usual approach would have been to manually try to hack that into xorg.conf (at least thats what I did with my old Nvidia/Twinview configuration) but in LMDE there is no xorg.conf anymore. I think this if because of this new kernel setting mode (whatever that means).
The next problem is related: When I have the big LCD screen (where the panels are) on top of the other screen maximizing a window extends it "under" the lower panel. Any ideas on that?
Help would be very appreciated. If I finally get everything to work, I'll contribute a T420-LMDE review to thinkwiki.com
Cheers,
Bernhard