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First, I now have a dual monitor setup working. The only catch is that I haven’t figured out how to automatically detect the external monitor. I have to manually change xorg.conf every time I go between dual and single monitor situations (and restart X).

In other news, I figured out how to disable my touchpad (it tends to be overly sensitive to taps, which can cause my cursor to jump around). First set:

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

In xorg.conf under the Synaptics device section. After restarting X, the command

synclient TouchpadOff=1

will turn off the touchpad. I believe there are methods to automate this, but they are not yet cooked into the distribution. I  am fairly certain now that these kinds of details are standing in the way of wider adoption of desktop Linux. Gui configuration of the desktop works in Windows, it should work in Linux.

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