From: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
To: Gabriel Schulhof <nix@go-nix.ca>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Multiple X screens
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:07:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD3A859.6050903@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD29C0F.4040805@t-online.de>
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>> Getting this to work is indeed trivial. In fact, GNOME auto-detects the
>> display, and extends my desktop by default. This is not what I want.
>>
>> What I want is not to extend my desktop, but to have an X server that
>> consists of multiple (in this case two) separate screens.
>
> I don't know if it's possible, at least I failed too. But: A generic solution
> would be to use two Xephyr <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr> X clients/servers on top of the "real" Xorg server.
>
I realized that Xephyr has no "geometry" option. Have a look atthis discussion. <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12221>
cu,
knut
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 9:34 Multiple X screens Gabriel Schulhof
2011-05-17 11:48 ` Knut Petersen
2011-05-17 11:55 ` Gabriel Schulhof
2011-05-17 16:02 ` Knut Petersen
2011-05-18 11:07 ` Knut Petersen [this message]
2011-05-18 0:59 ` Keith Packard
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