Adding a 2nd montitor to a iMac G5

I have an iMac G5, 1.8 GHz with 2 GB RAM running OSX 10.5.
I'd like to run a 2nd monitor and have an Acer AL1916W handy and wonder if I can link it to my iMac?
Is it a simply matter of getting a cable from Apple that connects to the back of my iMac to the VGA of
the Acer? Or more complicated or not possible?
Thanks,
Steven

Hi. I bought a mini VGA to regular VGA adapter at the Apple Store, plugged in the Acer monitor and now I have a mirror of my iMac on the Acer, dock and all.
I was hoping to have it set up as an extension like I do on my Mac Pro, 30" and old Cinema Display where you go into Sys Prefs and set which monitor is the main monitor which shows your dock etc, and then you can drag files across over to the other monitor to store 2nd pages of docs, or your working panes like in Photoshop, etc.
But when I open Sys Prefs Displays, the Acer is the main screen and has the close and expand buttons in the top left of it's window and the imac screen has none. So to close out I have to make the Acer prefs window the top window and click the red button.
I'm using OSX 10.5.8 with 2 GB RAM.
Am I doing something wrong or is what I want to do not possible on this iMac or OS?

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