Re: Support for multiple monitors in VMWare?

2015-01-08 Thread Martin Dietze 
Good morning and thank you :)

On 8 January 2015 at 00:41, kix  wrote:
> I cannot help you with the problem, but probably you can use this
> workaround. The idea is using multiple monitors, but, as different
> devices (not as only one). The configuration is something like this (for
> my NVidia).

This does not seem to help inside my VMWare box, since the XServer I
am using there is the VMWare one.
xrandr "sees" only one screen, too, same in Gnome, same in lspci. It
seems like VMWare does not actually show the second monitor to the
system but leaves it to the xserver instead which will just pretend
that you have one large screen (that's my speculation now).

I found this article in the VMWare support communities:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/198341

I am still researching, but it seems like if your WM does not support
the X hint I mentioned you're pretty lost...

Cheers,

Martin

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Re: Support for multiple monitors in VMWare?

2015-01-07 Thread kix 

On 07/01/2015 20:20, Martin Dietze wrote:
> At work I am now working on a Linux system in a VMWare virtual
> machine. Of course, the first thing I did was install WM :)
>
> I found that I am unable to use multiple monitors when using WM
> while this is not a problem e.g. with Gnome. I think I found out
> why this is the case: On VMWare the _NETWM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS
> hint is used to propagate the information that there is more
> than one monitor. As it seems, WM does not support this. I
> cannot even seem to see the second monitor using `xrandr -q'. 
>
> Has anybody found a workaround for this? Any plans to include
> support for the _NETWM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS hint in WM?
>
> Cheers,
>
> M'bert


Hi Martin,

I cannot help you with the problem, but probably you can use this
workaround. The idea is using multiple monitors, but, as different
devices (not as only one). The configuration is something like this (for
my NVidia).

Cheers,
kix

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
Screen  1  "Screen1" 1920 0
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName  "Acer V223HQ"
HorizSync   31.0 - 84.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName  "Acer AL1715"
HorizSync   30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName  "GeForce GTS 450"
BusID  "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen  0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName  "GeForce GTS 450"
BusID  "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen  1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
DefaultDepth24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "DVI-I-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor"Monitor1"
DefaultDepth24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-1"
Option "metamodes" "DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
EndSubSection
EndSection



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