Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Maura Edeweiss Monville wrote:
> Sorry for my inexperience in this field.
> Can someone please explain to a laywoman how the mentioned workaround can
> solve my problem ?
> At most meetings, seminars I partecipated in the speaker turne his/her
> back to the big wall screen (projected image) as he/she has to look at the
> audience he/she addresses. To spare the speaker from stretching his/her
> neck, the speaker can see the same slide, which is being projected on the
> wall, on the  monitor of the computer whose keyboard or mouse he/she uses
> to select the next slide.
> According to my little experience, laptops running Windows allow for the
> slide to be seen by the audience facing the wall and by the speaker facing
> the laptop monitor, at the same time.
> I am a Linux fan. Nevertheless for PowerPoint presentations I believe a
> plain Windows box is the right choice...

I have an IBM ThinkPad, which also allows both the LCD and external
display to function at the same time.  However, with the 2.6 kernel, I
cannot switch modes, once Linux starts, so I have to enable both
displays, prior to Linux booting.