Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:26:59 +1000 "Daniel Stonier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I just picked up a second monitor and was curious as to what X arrangements others are using with e in the same situation - do you use twinview/xinerama? Are there other options? Is it

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Geoffrey
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:26:59 +1000 Daniel Stonier [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I just picked up a second monitor and was curious as to what X arrangements others are using with e in the same situation - do you use twinview/xinerama? Are there other

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Geoffrey
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:26:59 +1000 Daniel Stonier [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I just picked up a second monitor and was curious as to what X arrangements others are using with e in the same situation - do you use twinview/xinerama? Are there other

[e-users] KDE with Enlightenment

2004-10-16 Thread Geoffrey
I've been using Gnome panels with Enlightenment, but would like to check out kde with Enlightenment. I've been able to get them started together, but noted that my E desktop menus are replaced by kde menus, when clicking on the desktop. Is there an easy way to resolve this issue, or is it a

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Peter
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:26:59 +1000 Daniel Stonier [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I just picked up a second monitor and was curious as to what X arrangements others are using with e in the same situation - do you use twinview/xinerama? Are there other

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Derek Schaible
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 18:59, Daniel Stonier wrote: Now just a matter of getting the two desktops to point to different e configurations :) This is where I ran into trouble. Both desktops run from the same config unless you can run each screen as a different user. Apparently, this is possible

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Geoffrey
Peter wrote: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: snip dont use xinerama. use plain old fashioned multihead then (caveat - u cant drag windows between screens or stretch them across screens) Second read on this from Rasterman, originally I misread it to say 'u can drag...' My bad. Something

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Daniel Stonier
I do this, and it's terrific. Why drag things across monitors when they are different resolutions and quality (as in my case). I use monitor 0 for panel (kicker), email, and newsgroups, and compiling (1024x768) and monitor 1 for browsing, graphics, program testing, windows (boo hiss) at

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Peter
Geoffrey wrote: Peter wrote: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: snip Since my monitors are so close in size, I run them at the same resolution. Physical screen dimensions are less than 1 cm difference. My ONLY gripe is that E thinks the desktops are the same for both monitor

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Peter
Daniel Stonier wrote: snip hmm...I had thought it would be an easy fiddle to create a second .enlightenment directory, then edit .xinitrc with something like /usr/bin/enlightenment -display :0.0 /usr/bin/enlightenment -econfdir=.enlightenment-secondary -display :0.1 No, you do not

Re: [e-users] Multiple Monitors

2004-10-16 Thread Daniel Stonier
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:42:40 -0400, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, Your settings are exactly what I've currently got in my XFree86Config. With one call to /usr/bin/enlightenment in my .xinitrc it actually goes ahead and spawns two instances of e (these show up on 'ps axu'), but both use