Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:05:09AM +1000, Russell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got two video cards installed with their own monitors.
> > I'm trying to get both monitors to have an identical display.
>
> Assuming you use XFree86, you have to decide if you want to use
> Xinerama or an old style multi head setup. With Xinerama, you
> get one big logical screen (usually ":0.0") and you can move
> windows between the two screens, but both screens must have the
> same number of bitplanes (colours). With the other setup you get
> two logical screens (":0.0" and ":0.1"). A separate copy of fvwm
> runs on both screens. Windows can not be moved from one screen to
> the other, but both screens can have a different number of
> bitplanes. I recommend to use the Xinerama setup if possible, but
> I can't help you to bring it up.
>
> > The first monitor works ok, but the second monitor only shows
> > the default grey background of X, the fvwm pager, and has no
> > mouse pointer or other windows. How can i do that?
>
> In both setups you can transfer the pointer between both monitors
> by simply moving it over the adjacent edge of the screen. To
> start the application windows, modify your .fvwm2rc. Look for the
> StartFunction, InitFunction and RestartFunction definitions and
> start the applications you need on both screens. With Xinerama
> it's pretty straightforward. With a multi head setup you can add
> a line
>
> Read .fvwm2rc.$[screen]
>
> somewhere in your .fvwm2rc file and add screen specific commands
> in these files:
>
> .fvwm2rc.0
> .fvwm2rc.1
>
> For example, my .fvwm2rc.0 is empty while my .fvwm2rc.1 looks like
> this:
>
> DestroyFunc InitFunction
> AddToFunc InitFunction
> + I StandardSetup
>
> The "StandardSetup" function takes care of bringing up my terminal
> windows and fvwm modules on the current screen.
>
> There are some paragraphs about Xinerama setups in the fvwm man
> page that you should read if you go with Xinerama.
I might go with the two-separate-screens option. What i really
wanted is to have the same logical screen 0.0 cloned on both
monitors, so that a mouse cursor is displayed in the same
place on both monitors simultaneously. However, i think
the missing mouse cursor on the cloned screen is a more
basic problem in XFree86. I got the same fvwm desktop
to appear on both screens by using:
Option "Xinerama" "yes"
Option "CloneDisplay" "yes"
in XF86Config.
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