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Of course, there are also certain driver level issues that can have a
serious impact on functionality.  For example, I believe it is
impossible to control the primary display if the Intel drivers are being
used; on a laptop (the most common place to use multi-head I think)
these will almost always regard an external display as primary (I got
stuck with the "monitor on top" issue.  I am not sure what features are
available from Nvidia, ATI or the free-drivers or if these features
remain consistent across the range. How these discrepancies get
addressed is, I am afraid, beyond me.

So even if additions were made to Gnome, I seriously doubt the required features and controls would be consistently available.
I am afraid I am no big expert on the matter - I have simply given up trying to get multi-head to work as it was just too difficult and this has, basically, halted my attempts to adopt Linux for now.

I have only managed to find documentation on behaviour from external sites (i.e. not run by the Gnome project), one example is
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#Note_for_Gnome_users so perhaps my information is wrong?

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gnome-display-properties: no way to set which is the primary monitor
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