dual monitor problem

Nicolas Mommaerts nico at beatz.no-ip.org
Sat Jan 24 13:06:26 CET 2004


What do you mean with benny already pointed out? Can you tell me what
you mean with exporting the DISPLAY?

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 11:14, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> As benny already pointed, unless you export the DISPLAY, your example
> won't work correctly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 01:24, dan radom wrote:
> > * Nicolas Mommaerts (nico at beatz.no-ip.org) wrote:
> > > I have a dual monitor setup, which works fine in Gnome. I'm NOT using
> > > Xinerama and don't want to either. When I start xfce4 only my main
> > > monitor is used. I can move the mouse to my other monitor though, but
> > > that screen is just black and the mouse cursor changes to a cross (the
> > > default arrow in X?) I searched the maillists and encountered  two
> > > people with the same problem but no solution...
> > > 
> > 
> > Classic dual head isn't really supported.  Here's the work around I
> > use...
> > 
> > grep relevant parts from .xinitrc
> > 
> > DISPLAY=:0.0; xfce-mcs-manager &
> > DISPLAY=:0.0; xfwm4 --daemon &
> > DISPLAY=:0.0; xfdesktop &
> > DISPLAY=:0.0; xbindkeys &
> > DISPLAY=:0.0; xfce4-panel &
> > 
> > DISPLAY=:0.1; xfce-mcs-manager &
> > DISPLAY=:0.1; xfwm4 --daemon &
> > DISPLAY=:0.1; xfce4-panel &
> > DISPLAY=:0.1; xbindkeys &
> > DISPLAY=:0.1; exec xfdesktop
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