> On my office dual-monitor system, i simply type startx, and it starts the
> server on both displays (a Trident 9685 and a Trident 9680). I get 2
> copies of Enlightenment (my Window Manager), because I don't use Xinerama.
> One thing to note about Xinerama, is that if your monitors are not both
> at the same resolution, you may have programs start, in a blank space of
> the screen.
>
> Fig 1.
> Xinerama with different-resolution desktop.
>
> |-Display 1, 1280x1024-----------|-------------------------------|
> | | Blank Space |
> | |-------------------------------|
> | | |
> |--------------------------------|-----Display 2, 1024x768-------|
>
> Because one display is larger, Xinerama's virtual display has space that
> is "off the screen" from the other display. This can be an annoyance, so
> if you want to use Xinerama, make sure your displays are both at the same
> resolution.
this is actually an issue for your window manager. some (usually older) wm's
assume that the screen space is a rectangle; and so they'll happily create
windows in the 'dead space' below the smaller display.
enlightenment has always had good support for multiple displays (look at
some of Rasterman's screenshots www.rasterman.com). FVWM 2.4 deals with them
reasonably well. those are the ones I use, so I don't know how well others
deal with multiple displays of different sizes.
> You shouldn't have to edit your xserverrc file (I didn't have to).
I only set up my .xserverrc file if I need to do things with my
user's X setup, that aren't the system defaults.
here's my server layout section, including the option to load Xinerama:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen "Screen0" 0 0
Screen "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
Screen "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0"
Option "Xinerama" "yes"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Carl Soderstrom
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