multiple screens/non-xinerama

[Derek T. Yarnell]

Yes it does work, Thanks! 

I will await the release of rc2 then for xfdesktop.

Will there be a way that you can have different virtual desktops on each
screen? And therefore a different config for each monitor? 

Thanks.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:52:28PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Derek,
> 
> It does work, although xfdesktop doesn't (yet, will be fixed before
> rc2), the rest does.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> xfwm4 --display :0.0 --daemon
> xfwm4 --display :0.1 --daemon
> xfce4-panel --display :0.0
> 
> works. Obviously, you don't see anything on the second screen, as no
> window is mapped there. Just run a terminal and launch
> 
> xterm -display :0.1
> 
> and it will show on second screen, and you'll see xfwm4 is running there
> too.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 22:50, Derek T. Yarnell wrote:
> > 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
University of Maryland
Computer Science Department Unix Staff
derek at cs.umd.edu