multiple screens/non-xinerama

Net Llama! netllama at linux-sxs.org
Tue Jul 15 18:07:56 CEST 2003


You need to configure X to run on both displays. This isn't a user-space setup.

On 07/15/03 08:31, Derek T. Yarnell wrote:

> Hm.. that does not seem to do it. Here is my .xinitrc file (I am
> starting from console with startx) 
> 
> xfce-mcs-manager
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
> xfwm4&
> export DISPLAY=:0.1
> xfwm4&
> xftaskbar4 &
> xfdesktop &
> exec xfce4-panel
> 
> All of them are in my path, well obviously because I can run xfce on one
> head and not the other.
> 
> So when I do this, it only shows up on the second screen, this is the
> XFree86 config,
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier  "Simple Layout"
>     Screen "Screen0"
>     Screen "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
>     InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>     InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:48:27PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
>>Derek,
>>
>>export DISPLAY=:0.0
>>xfwm4&
>>export DISPLAY=:0.1
>>xfwm4&
>>
>>cheers,
>>Olivier.
>>
>>On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 23:33, Derek T. Yarnell wrote:
>>
>>>I am using one of the beta's of 4.0 and was wondering if there is a way
>>>to run xfce4 with two screens, but not using xinerama (I don't want one
>>>big desktop). I just want to run basically two different window managers
>>>but I don't see how just yet. 
>>>
>>>Thanks.



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