Connecting multiple external screens to Ubuntu Linux

[Geoffrey Mendelson]

I answered a similar question by finding this:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X380-USB-C-Dock-2-external-monitors/td-p/4309124

I hope it at least points you in the right direction.

Geoff

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
On Jun 13, 2020, 2:31 PM +0300, Gabor Szabo <gabor at szabgab.com>, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Thinkpad ( https://www.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/13-series/ThinkPad-13-Windows-2nd-Gen/p/22TP2TX133E ). It has a single HDMI slot but when I run xrandr I get:
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 2160, maximum 16384 x 16384
> eDP-1 connected 1920x1080+0+1080 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 294mm x 165mm
> .....
> HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm
> ....
> DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>
> (The .... are just lots of lines of possible configuration).
>
> Based on this (and on my lack of understanding) I could connect another monitor to DP-1
> and one to HDMI-2, but I don't know where can I plug them in physically?
>
> If I understand correctly an HDMI-splitter might work, but the screens connected to that would show the same image. (Mirror configuration.) I would like to have different content on each screen.
>
> Any idea?
>
> In a more generic question: what do I need in my computer so I can have more than 2 displays showing different(!) content? Do I need a separate graphics card for each display?
>
> regards
>     Gabor
>
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