scott,
have you tried "separate x screen" instead of "twinview"?
otherwise, i don't think i understand enough to be of any serious help.
good luck, georg



On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:29:26 Scott C. Frase wrote:
> Guys,
> I am trying to use Cinelerra's screencapture recording function to
> capture what is being displayed in the right display of my dual head
> configuration.  In the Prefs -> Recording -> Display box, Cinelerra
> allows you to enter the display as it is found in xorg.conf.  Depending
> on the identifier of the screen in xorg.conf, this is usually comes in
> the form:
> <computername>:0.0
> eg,
> server:0.0
>
> My problem is that I have an NVidia card running TwinView on dual
> 1280x1024 Dell flat panels.  The only identifier for the TwinView
> display is 0.0, so the recording always starts on my left monitor.
> However, I need to capture what is in the right monitor.  The stuff I
> need to capture is output from a custom visualization software that does
> not allow me to change output displays.
>
> My thought was maybe I can just feed in a "+1280" so that the screen
> capturing starts 1280 pixels to the right.  So, I looked at
> recordmonitor.C and see a number of functions for the
> RecordMonitorCanvas and values for position of x.  However, my chops in
> C suck, so I can't figure out what to change in order to move the start
> of the recording 1280 pixels to the right.  Even if I have to hard code
> the value into recordmonitor.C and recompile, that is fine with me.
>
> can anyone help?
>
> thanks,
> scott
>
>
>
>
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