independant displays (no coupled screen switching)?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

What you're after is called Zaphod mode (ie one screen per head)

This is something handled by your Xorg driver via the xorg.conf
configuration, not xfce.

Cheers,
Olivier


On 5 October 2016 at 16:18, Ulli Horlacher
<framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> My old workstation with Xubuntu 12.04 (Xfce 4,8) has two independant
> displays.
>
> Display 1:
>
> framstag at flupp:~: echo $DISPLAY
> :0.0
>
> Display 2:
>
> framstag at flupp:~: echo $DISPLAY
> :0.1
>
>
> I can move the mouse pointer from one display to the other (but no windows)
> and I can switch the virtual screens independantly, e.g. display 1 virtual
> screen 1 and display 2 virtual screen 3.
> This is what I want!
>
> My new workstation with Xubuntu 16.04 (Xfce 4,12) now has two coupled
> displays. Both have DISPLAY=:0.0 and I cannot switch the virtual screens
> independantly. When I choose another screen with the Workspace Switcher,
> both displays are switched together. BAD.
>
> With Settings->Display (xfce4-display-settings) I was not able to
> configure the displays independant.
>
> What is the trick?
>
>
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