multiple screens/non-xinerama

Derek T. Yarnell derek at cs.umd.edu
Wed Jul 16 22:50:53 CEST 2003


They are running, I get that nice X cross hatch on the other display.
Gnome and KDE both do the right thing and see that their is one display
at :0.0 and one at :0.1 but I can't get two xfce desktops running.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:07:56AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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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Derek T. Yarnell
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