Multiple Monitors w/ Linux

[RichS]

Is it possible to use 2+ monitors with Linux? If you know of a good how to for this please point me to it.

TIA

Rich

 

[Tardigrade]

You could try looking at this, I've never tried it but I remembered seeing this article in Linux today...

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/

Good Luck
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Scott

 

[RichS]

I haven't thought of it that way - pretty cool. What I am wanting to do is have a bigger desktop; where i can move the mouse from one monitor to the other - 2 monitors simultaneously for one user, one login.

Rich

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I did this recently using 2 graphics cards and 2 monitors.

I used the latest XFree86 (version 4.02, I think), and added extra lines to the XF86Config file;

A new display section (just copy the old one and give it a new name)

A new graphics card section (I created an XF86Config file for graphics card #1, then saved it as XF86Config.ATI, then created another for graphics card 2, and copied the relevant text from #1).

Then I edited the Layout section, indicating the position (Screen 1 left of Screen 2).

Next I edited my startup file by inserting the line startx --+ Xinerama.

It really is very cool - and you can adjust the configuration under Enlightenment. I did this to use a 152 and 17" monitor, so that the cursor went across the screens at a "seamless" location.

Good Luck - post back if you need more help - it took me a few days!

 

[RichS]

That's what i want to do.
Thanks.

 

[DavidWoodhouse]

Do you know if I can set up XF86Config to allow 2 screens on a single monitor so that one is a transparent layer above the other. One should respond as Display :0.1 and the other as :0.2 .. ??

David

 

[RichS]

Interesting. I am thinking about this from a functional point of view. Would you be working on one screen - the non transparent one; but still be able to see data on the screen behind(or in front) - the transparent one? I could see some use for something like that. And maybe turn it on and off with a hotkey. That would be cool.

Rich

 

[DavidWoodhouse]

The rear screen will be able to display a continually changing picture of the "Real World" whilst the front will have a number of windows on it containing associated data. It should be possible to turn the forground server on/off in one go without loosing the data. But that is latter. I am still having problems starting multiple Xserver talking to different layers. One step at a time ... I hope..

David

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Hey Tardigrade, thanks for the link. That is cool to know. Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer