Fwd: problems with VLC and Totem playing image on external monitor

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 08:57 -0400, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I have trouble finding what I am looking for on Help and Support.   I
> always gothere first, although perhaps I give up too soon. 

I often don't find stuff using the search there. What often works great,
though, is to use the base URL, e.g., https://help.ubuntu.com/community/
and then append the desired topic, e.g.,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ati

The wiki is then smart enough to give you a list of all pages with
similar names.

Another technique that might help is to use Google with the "site:"
constraint, e.g., 
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahelp.ubuntu.com+Ati

Google's dedicated Linux search is also often helpful by constraining
the hits to useful ones:
http://www.google.com/linux


> sometimes I might not use the correct vocabulary.  

People tell me that I am very good at googling. I don't know if that's
true (and I certainly don't use most of the neat tricks from
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html ), but one thing that I
do that always proves effective is to search for words or phrases that I
expect to occur in the desired search hits. This works amazingly well.

> Someone wrote a good essay on linux that I've lost.  

Google will find it. What can you remember? (Again, if you can remember
a sentence or similar, it will work wonders at Google).

> I installed grandr and got the link to display on a menu.  Using that
> menu I can disable the internal monitor and dvds will play on the
> external monitor.  So far so good.
> 
> When I want to re-enable the internal monitor I have problems. 

Unfortunately from here on I am clueless. Maybe someone else can chime
in ...