I also Compiz and Dual Monitors running. I have an older nvidia card, but have not worked to try and get my monitors to rotate separately from each other. Even without that, I still love it. I don't remember the exact set up, and am not at home to look at it right now.
-hal On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't had any problems with dual screen setups and compiz, EXCEPT > with some of the latest Dell computers using ATI video cards. > I'm running Mandriva 2008 Spring, with nVidia video card. Naturally > first set up the Dual screen, then enabled the compiz. > All configurations were done without even looking at the xorg.conf file. > > http://charlotteandpetri.net/images/misc/Dual_screen_with_compiz.png > (Not optimized screen capture, about 1.1Mb file) > > Petri > > > Brad Bendily wrote: > > What is everyone using these days for multiple monitors? > > I had 1 computer setup using Compiz, which is cool (first time i've > > used it on my own computer). > > I really like using it, much more than multiple desktops. But then i > > got an extra monitor. So i thought, > > great, i'll use the second monitor and Compiz at the same time. There > > is a youtube video out there > > with someone using multiple monitors and compiz, so somehow it can be > > done. This lead me to a lot > > of reading. Of course the gold standard for multi monitors is/was > > Xinerama. But as of 9/2007 > > Sourceforge says xinerama is deprecated. Bummer. So, what's next? X11 > > says they're moving their > > multi monitor support to xrandr. Anyone been using that? > > Since compiz/multiple monitors don't seem to like each other all that > > well, i thought at the very least > > i'd like to rotate my second monitor 90degrees, but i can't do that > > with Xinerama. I might can do it > > with xrandr but the older distro i'm running has an old X11 and an old > > intel driver. I can upgrade and > > try some bleeding edge distro, i don't really care about that. > > > > I'm just curious how others are doing multiple monitors and/or compiz? > > > > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xinerama/ > > > > > > Also, i found some info about DMX (Distributed Multihead support) and > > this lambdavision group set that up. > > It looks very cool, but out of my price range! > > http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/lambdavision/display.html > > > > more info about dmx can be found here: > > http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ > > > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-mltihed/index.html > > > > werd > > bb > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
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