Deep within the pages of the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 1 alpha pages are various hints about what’s to expect from the upcoming releases.  I have always been a huge fan of having two monitors running from the same PC, it greatly increases productivity.  The Ubuntu team is working on integrating a better UI for multiple monitor support, and I personally am very thankful for it.

The only thing that they are not going to do, at least yet is.. add support for more than two screens.  The coding apparently becomes much more difficult when jumping beyond two screens, but hopefully someday they will.  There are also many other changes coming in the new releases, but this is one I wanted to focus on for those out there dying for better multi-screen support.

Here are some links:

UbuntuWiki: DisplayConfigGTK

UbuntuLists: UI of X Config.

Here is a screenshot of the new interface for Screen Preferences.

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