Re: Dual Monitors

Stephen Mah <steve.mah@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:44:15 -0700

since we are on the subject,

I have xinerama running with kde 3.0. Is there a way to have new windows 
default to a specific display?

Also, is there a way to minimize apps onto two its on display's task bar?

Mitch Crane wrote:

This one time, at band camp, "Mitch Crane" <tenacious_x@xxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

My problem is, I don't know how to enable my second video card. I'm

not

even sure it's possible. One card is an nVidia GF3 and the other is

a

Voodo3. I've been using the Voodoo3 PCI card for my second monitor

with

various nVidia cards for a few years now in Win2k and XP. It works

great

and I really miss the extra real estate when I'm running Linux.

Not only is it possible, but much fun..

you simply need to edit your XF86Config to reflect the new monitor and

video card. I use a dual head Matrox G450 (will accept upgrade offers)

and

xinerama. I have in the past used up to 3 different video cards to run
multiple monitors.

There are some good docs here

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/

Thanks, Kevin and Mark. tldp.org seemed to be down for a while
yesterday, but I loaded it up this morning and got my dual monitor setup
working. It wasn't too painful at all. X -configure left my XF86Config
in a pretty generic state, but got me to a good starting point. From
there I just pasted my old mouse and keyboard configs back in from the
backup, fixed a few monitor params, and added the Xinerama flag.

I noticed some (all?) dialogs poping up spanning the monitors. I don't
know if that's a window manager issue or if maybe there's a fix for
that. If not, it's not a serious problem.

--
-regards

Stephen Mah - Systems Administrator
Oracle Global Desktop Architecture
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