On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Chris Kottaridis <chriskot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am putting together a machine and plan to run Fedora Core 12 on it. > > I want to run with 2 monitors and am wondering if there is some > preferred video card I should buy that can provide two monitors. > > I will only be doing web browsing and text editing and such. I don't > need anything fancy. I won't be runinng any games on this or watching > DVD's. > > Is there any list of video cards that Fedora Core 12 is known to work > with in a dual monitor setup ? > > What I want to do is have two distinct logins. So, I can log in as one > user on one monitor and log in as a different user on the other monitor > but just have the one keyboard. Basically, gdm running on both monitors > and hot switch the keyboard from one to the other. > > Everything I have seen talks about setting up things to have both > monitors used by one user and essentially get one bigger monitor. So, > any pointers to how to set up dual monitors with separate users logging > in would be great. > > Right now I login as one user and then start a VNC session as another > user and operate like that. I'd rather not do that if possible. I haven't tried this, so please take with a grain of salt: You can run two distinct X servers on each monitor. In fact, it's quite simple if you're running two keyboards and two monitors. The issue is that you're running a single keyboard... To get around this you can setup your X servers to run on the different screens. Next, set one to not fail if it doesn't detect a keyboard or mouse. Next, run the synergy keyboard sharing utility on both instances. The first instance will be a server. The second will be the client. Theoretically it should allow you to use a single keyboard/mouse with both heads. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
