Greetings from Tacoma, WA, USA, a Wasteland of Burning Tires, Geert! On Wednesday, November 30, in the 2005th year of our Lord, you wrote:
> I have been experimenting for a while now and i can not find out how to
> solve this.
>
> The situation:
> I have two 'monitors' (one CRT and one TV) as seperate X displays
> like this:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "TV_plus"
> Screen 0 "Default Screen"
> Screen 1 "tv_screen" rightOf "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> EndSection
>
> this gives me two X displays: 0.0 and 0.1
> however, i find it impossible to tell gnome (actually, metacity) to only
> use 0.0 and leave 0.1 (the tv) alone.
I don't use gnome or kde, but I had a similar setup. I work with a
dual-head display, and output a third display to my tv for (mostly)
watching movies.
What I did was a bit of a hack, but seemed to work. In my .xinitrc, I
fired up e16 with the -s <screen> -d <display> options, which allowed me to
fire up two instances of enlightenment on my monitors and prevented
enlightement from trying to launch an instance of itself for every display
available. I then started up ratpoison on the tv monitor, which worked
great because I didn't need anything but a single fullscreen terminal to
control mplayer.
I imagine metacity has an option to disable it's display detection and
insist it only run on one display as well.
Now I use a different configuration, where I have seperate xorg "layouts"
and different mice/keyboard attached to the layouts. This allows me to use
a seperate wireless/trackball combo as a remote for the "TV", and
enlightenment manages the dual-head monitor setup on it's own without a
fancy x init script.
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