three monitors with Xfce?

[Ray Andrews]

On 29/10/12 04:03 PM, houghi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 03:41:52PM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Trying to get a third monitor working here.  I come close but no
>> cigar, so maybe the first question I should ask is if Xfce even
>> supports this.
> Running three monitors, so yes. I have NVidia cards. No experience with
> other types.
Ok thanks houghi.
> Running it is pretty easy and this is the process I do on a new install
> 1) Do the installation
> 2) Install the propriotory NVidia software. With openSUSE I just add the
> repo, but downloading from the NVidia site is possible as well. I install
> the drivers as well as nvidia-settings
> 3) Log out from X and go to tty1, log in as root and run `nvidia-xconfig`.
> 4) Reboot and in XFCE become root in a terminal and run nvidia-settings
> 5) Log out and back in.
These are ATI cards, and it's on a Salix machine, I can't even find a 
driver package for them.  The proprietary installer that worked on my 
LMDE doesn't work here, and I can't find anything in the Slack world 
that looks easy.
> The reason I run XFCE and not GNOME or KDE is because I can have my
> seperate X screens on all screens. Something I was unable to do with KDE
> or GNOME.
I had that same issue.
> houghi
BTW,  trying an older nvidia card on my LMDE machine, there is an 
interesting bug.  My mouse pointer winks out whenever it's on a panel at 
exactly the moment that one of those descriptive lines pops up.  What  
are those things called?  Eg. "Click to switch to "Workspace 5"" it 
delays about a second before showing, and at that moment, good bye 
pointer. Any thoughts on that?  I'm inclined to think it's the fault of 
the card, but who knows.