On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like you
>>>> describe.
>>>
>>> And you can select/paste from one screen to another where the source
>>> is a gtk-3 app?
>>
>> Not sure, need to test with a gtk-3 app.
>>
>> I run KDE myself.
>
>>> I should clarify that I mean "screen" in the strict X11 usage. Using
>>> Xinerama or the like to spread a single desktop across multiple
>>> monitors is still a single screen setup. I'm trying to select text
>>> on DISPLAY=:0.0 and paste it on DISPLAY=:0.1
>>
>> Not using my desktop atm.
>> What does Xorg do by default when it detects multiple screens?
>
> Not sure -- I'll have to give it a try. IIRC, it just uses the first
> one.
At least on my machine, if I start up X11 without a configuration file
it only uses one of my three monitors. That behavior may depend on
which boards are installed and which board/driver is found first.
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