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dual screen solution on ubuntu 9.04 jaunty with nvidia

after updating to the new version of jaunty of course the dual screen stuff did not work anymore. the xorg.conf couldnt be read anymore, and even couldnt be backed up.... anyways, after update was complete i needed to play around a bit. to get dual screens in jaunty running again with synergy i then found the folowing solution: i started System>Administration>"Hardware Drivers", activated the revommended NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 180), rebootet and then started nvidia-xconfig. now i started System>Administration>Nvidia XServer Settings, enabled under "X Server Display configuration" the second screen again, changed the configuration to "TwinView" and everything was fine. Seems ATM i am not using Xitami extensions anymore. now only thing that needs to be done after update is is... i need to get my broken gcc running again.... after my update from hardy to jaunty (with middle-step updating to interprid) i was surprised to find

Getting Synergy (Windows Server) to work with a dual screen Ubuntu Synergy Client

Today I had a hard time after I tried to change my synergy solution. Before I had a WindowsXP-Ubuntu solution where 2 monitors where on the XP machine that acted as the synergy server and one monitor on the ubuntu machine. I now decided to move one of the monitors to ubuntu (for display-quality reasons). At first i had a hard time getting my Ubuntu Hardy Heron to work with 2 screens and I took some wrong turns but I finally found my solution: There are already many tutorials on the net, and luckily my Ubuntu machine has an nvidia card inside which made things easier: Here is what worked for me: I installed nvidia-settings application via classic sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings and then ran it with sudo. Here I activated my second screen which is running now. Hooray dual-screen usage! But unfortunately Synergy did not work properly anymore. Synergy switches screens between my first ubuntu screen and my XP screen, but it cant reach the SECOND ubuntu screen. when using the "--di