[clug] Xinerama with a Radeon mobile chipset

Michael Manning michael at michaelmanning.org
Thu Jul 1 23:47:25 GMT 2004


Cool - sounds like a great setup. I currently have a couple of T40's and
one R40 ThinkPad - the config file would be awesome if you don't mind.


On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 09:11, Michael Still wrote:
> Michael Still wrote:
> 
> > What I want is to be able to use the latop dual head with an external 
> > monitor, but also quickly and easily swap back to having the external 
> > monitor display the same thing as the internal monitor for presentations 
> > (at 1024x768). All the xinerama stuff I find on the web seems to be 
> > aimed at people with two video cards.
> 
> You guys rock. Anyways, I now have xinerama working on the machine, 
> which is very nice. My only final stupid question is "why can't I drag 
> windows between the two monitors?" followed on by "can I treat them as 
> one big workspace and have a window which goes over both monitors?" (I'm 
> thinking huge remote desktop session here.
> 
> It is matters, I'm using something along the lines of
> 
> ScreenLayout "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen2"
> 
> and the mouse moves between the two screens just fine. I'm using Gnome / 
> Metacity.
> 
> Config file available on application.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mikal
> 
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Michael Manning
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