Xorg/Multiple monitors

Looking a few weeks ago to a nice and fast wiki or ressource page to get started with X multihead without wanting to meddle in dozen of pages again and again.

Well, nothing could be found quickly to satisfy a simple way to get multihead running every time a screen or a particular screen was attached to a computer. Well, some old X.org/Multihead found out there was really too old, written before the new xorg.conf file less adoption with -1.10.0 (was it that version?).

Anyway, again, I had to find out how to do it alone without any single hint found in the intertubes. I was just impressed how the xorg.conf file less could be very efficientt at handling multi screens set up that are always, or not, attached to the computer.

How to get it working? Simple as defining monitors in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d'. One can use the manufacturer names to get a single config file attached to a single device. That's way, one can add custom settings like video modes etc.

The following is just an example. First there is no `/etc/X11/xorg.conf'. And then add the following files or rather a variation adapted to your set up to get going.

And finally, one do not need to define or include monitors sub section in the following screen section... That's because the effect of the previous defined monitors files will be used right away, thanks to evdev for the hot swap ability, whenever the refered monitor device will be attached to the computer.