Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:11:11 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: (...) What I would really like to do is have the second display tied to the login session of the first display but as a separate workspace. In other words, when logged in I could set it to workspace 5 while I use 1-4 on my main

Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 12 Nov 06:38 -0600, Camaleón wrote: I dunno how that adapter works (and it's quite expensive and low performance! wouldn't have been better to replace your current VGA card with a new one featuring 2 VGA outputs? :-?) but if I understood you correctly, you are looking for a

Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:37:13PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:11:11 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: (...) What I would really like to do is have the second display tied to the login session of the first display but as a separate workspace. In other words, when logged

Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
I had a bright idea a few days ago to add a second display to my Sid box. Turns out that the onboard Intel VGA adapter is disabled when an adapter is installed in the PCIE slot. As the remaining PCI slots were full, I couldn't install a spare card, so I ordered a Startech USB2VGA which I