ah yes. nvidia, they have twinview built-in. no need for extra
software. lucky you.
doesn't help anyone with a crappy intel card!
maybe the newer intel is better. OpenSuse 11 was released today, or
recently. Maybe
i'll try that.


On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Hal Wilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think compiz likes it, but I've always felt like having seperate x
> sessions, instead of using twinview should give you the opportunity to
> control them separately, but the only posts I've seen about it talk about
> having issues with compiz.  If my machine wasn't wokring so smoothly I might
> try it.  I hate to mess up a good thing though....
>
> -hal
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ah.....
>> Yes I think it may be pretty much impossible at this point to rotate
>> them separately. One would also have to have a method of controlling
>> both cubes with practically one mouse. Naturally different ideas can be
>> thrown about how to do it.... like mouse + key1 and mouse + key2 as
>> separation, or something like that.....
>>
>> Petri
>>
>>
>> Hal Wilke wrote:
>> > I wasn't trying to say that I had one cube.  I was trying to say that
>> > I had two cubes, but could not rotate them separately.  Which is what
>> > I would like to be able to do.  If you would like to change it so that
>> > you have one giant cube, you should be able to do that with the compiz
>> > configuration settings manager.
>> >
>> >
>> > Here is the bit of my xorg.conf that speaks to my video card and
>> > "twinview"  which is what I am using to get multiple monitor support:
>> >
>> > Section "Device"
>> >     Identifier     "Videocard0"
>> >     Driver         "nvidia"
>> >     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>> >     BoardName      "GeForce FX 5500"
>> > EndSection
>> >
>> > Section "Screen"
>> >     Identifier     "Screen0"
>> >     Device         "Videocard0"
>> >     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>> >     DefaultDepth    24
>> >     Option         "TwinView" "1"
>> >     Option         "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1280x1024 +0+0, CRT-1:
>> > 1280x1024 +1280+0; CRT-0: 1024x768 +0+0, CRT-1: NULL; CRT-0: 832x624
>> > +0+0, CRT-1: NULL; CRT-0: 800x600 +0+0, CRT-1: NULL; CRT-0: 720x400
>> > +0+0, CRT-1: NULL; CRT-0: 640x480 +0+0, CRT-1: NULL"
>> >     SubSection     "Display"
>> >         Depth       24
>> >         Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
>> > "640x480"
>> >     EndSubSection
>> > EndSection
>> >
>> >
>> > -hal
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     I have a bit opposite with rotating cube. I have not had time to
>> > find
>> >     out how to make both desktops to rotate as one cube. It went to two
>> >     cubes by default.
>> >     Also, some of the latest updates to compiz broke something with
>> >     windows
>> >     positioning. I used to be able to start M$ Winblows by clicking
>> >     the icon
>> >     on the desktop and it opened full-screen on the desktop #3.  This
>> > does
>> >     not happen anymore......
>> >
>> >     Petri
>> >
>> >
>> >     Hal Wilke wrote:
>> >     > 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] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >     > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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
>> >     >     >
>> >     >
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