[SOLVED]Battle for Wesnoth and external vga monitor

Hi all, i have my hp pavilion dm1 1010el hooked up to a 19'' external monitor via vga cable. When i plug it in, i use xrandr to mirror my screen, but when i try to launch battle for wesnoth, my external monitor becomes gray and wesnoth starts into LVDS (the laptop monitor...)
how can i fix this thing? it only happens with wesnoth, usually i can open things wherever i want
thanks!
Last edited by samuele.mattiuzzo (2010-04-30 10:38:35)

You could use xrandr to disable your notebooks "monitor" and only activate the external 19" monitor. This should force battle of wesnoth to run on the external display.
Gaming with dual head can sometimes be a problem. I am running a dual head combination (19" and 15" TFT) with a AMD HD4670 and radeon opensource drivers. When gaming I start a short shell script before launching the actual game to enable only the 19" display. Afterwards I use another shell script to set to dual head.
Edit:
This is my "singlehead.sh"
xrandr --output VGA-0 --off
xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1280x1024
This is my "dualhead.sh":
xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1280x1024
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --right-of DVI-0
HTH,
D$
Last edited by Darksoul71 (2010-04-29 22:06:15)

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