I am constructed of 100% pure, unadulterated geek-awesome! Okay, so it was pretty easy, but I am nonetheless using dual LCD monitors under X, and I did it without fucking anything up, which is worth something. At least I don’t think anything is fucked up; I’ve restarted X only once since I wrote the changes to xorg.conf, but it’s all working properly now, so it should be okay. Well, I did lock it up once because I was messing around behind the box and gave the Envision cable a pretty decent whack, but I’d expect that since it’s on a digital adapter that sticks out quite a way and I didn’t lock it onto the card because I wasn’t sure it was going to work at all. Anyway, if it’s not okay in the end, then I’ll just disconnect the second monitor and restore xorg.conf from the backup I made before I started screwing around with it (if I forget, it’s called xorg.conf_bkp19jan). Now, I just need some bigass high-res wallpapers that don’t have the focal point right in the middle, since my screen resolution is 2720×1024, spanned over the two monitors. There’s a way to have separate wallpapers for each screen, but I’d rather have continuity from one to another, and besides, I’m a big fan of, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. A lot of people have had a very difficult time getting dual monitors (perhaps particularly one widescreen and one not) configured under X, sometimes even with Nvidia cards/chips, and I didn’t (so far), so I’ll take what I can get! 🙂

Nerd Central, which is poorly lit because everyone knows Linux nerds eschew both the outdoors and the daylight with which it is associated. Not that anyone sane would go outside when it’s 12-fucking-F. Also because the window is in a spot where I was getting reflections on the widescreen, so I had to close the blinds and didn’t want to use the flash because it would bounce). 😉

Now the next time I bring the laptop over and put it on the little table next to my desk, it won’t be just Nerd Central, it’ll be dual-Linux, triple-screen Nerd Command Central!