Well after doing a bunch of reading and sifting through web pages,emails I found something which brings gnome up on the second monitor. >From the gnome foot.,click run and then this command. gnome-session --display :0.1 The 0 is the x display the .1 is the second monitor x display. For example 0.0 would be my main monitor. And 0.1 is the secondary monitor. This works.
Now I will research the shell switching. I'll post the results to benifit others. I'm beginning to like two monitors. I was playing around with Xnest last night. I had three window mangers going inside each other. Recursive windows? Here's the link I found how to do it. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7298 This is something to show off what X and Linux and the BSD's can do. I still have to try the second video card with three monitors. I'll let you know if I get it going. I only could run three to test to see if it would work, well maybe to show off too. Tim On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:08 pm, you wrote: > I've got a Nviidia FX 5200 which has two outputs vga and DVI. The DVI has > a DVI to VGA plug. Well I thought I would hook up my second monitor and > try it . I've got it going. I don't have xinerama on. I tried xinerama > and didn't like it. When I run KDE I get a display in both with panels. > This is nice. When I run gnome I only get my main monitor with gnome the > second monitor has the x screen up which looks like no window mangager is > working. When I move the mouse to the second monitor I see the X mouse > cursor but can do nothing. It must be a gnome configuration. > > Some other problems > > One is when I switch to a shell (alt + F1). My main monitor become dim and > you can see the output but the image is on the second one. The main work > has to be on monitor two. It would like to do work on my main monitor. > I'm thinking this is a configuration too. > > Two, when I run xawtv from window terminal shell it apears to start and > then it disapears. It gives a Segmentation fault error which. I think > this has to do with the dual displays. Is there a way to get this going.on > one of the monitors. What is funny is I started up vnc and tried xawtv in > it and the window opened no display though. I wonder if I could display > xawtv on my 2nd computer? Do I have to give up on watching tv? As if that > would be a bad thing. I have in the XF86Conifig-4 in "ServerLayout" an > option "Clone" "on" this might be the problem. > > What would be nice is to have Gnome in one monitor and KDE in the other or > a different wm. I've been thinking about adding a 2nd Video card and > having a third monitor. I want to see if I can do it. I'm pretty sure > it's possible. > > Thanks > Tim > _______________________________________________ > EuG-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
