Linonut wrote:
* Tom Shelton peremptorily fired off this memo:
On 2008-09-11, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
* Tom Shelton peremptorily fired off this memo:
I was sort of wondering that myself. I've been running muli-head for quite a
while on windows, yet I've never gotten a statisfactory result on Linux.
Bullshit. Unless you're talking about a quibble like some apps
(OpenOffice) putting their splash screen across two monitors.
I don't care about that - that happens with windows sometimes. All
I ever get are, either mirrored desktops (usless) or one continues
desktop -
where when you maximize an app it goes accross both monitors. I
have never gottne it to act as if they are truely separate
displays. And after 3 or 4 hours of trying I gave up. It takes
about 5 minutes or less to
setup dual monitors in windows.
Odd. I found it easy to get two separate X displays; but I prefer one
big-ass screen.
And on that one screen, apps maximize properly -- just fill the monitor
it is sitting in.
Maybe you should go back to a better window manager: fluxbox <grin>.
<snip>
4 monitors here, all independent, no problems. I get a mirrored screen
during boot (from bios up to but not including login) and during
shutdown. I don't use xinerama or twinview but plan on experimenting.
There is one minor pain in the ass, though. If I want to take my laptop into
a conference room and use the overhead project in dual-screen mode, I have
to copy over a tweaked xorg.conf for the low-res projector and then cycle through the various screen modes using the blue keys on the laptop.
I hate the nvidia X configurator, by the way. It junks up the settings
for dual monitors.
...never had it mess anything up, in fact it helped by inserting the
proper modelines for my monitors.
