Crossfire, Thanks for confirming what I suspected wrt using Xinerama..
I think I'll just disable it, create a background that doesn't sit in the middle of both screens and get used to moving things around... :) I'm not that fussed, it's a nice to have.. :) Cheers! Anthony.. -----Original Message----- From: Crossfire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:26 To: Anthony O'Hara Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Nvidia twinview, xorg and tv-out... Anthony O'Hara was once rumoured to have said: > In XP, I'm given an extension of the desktop to the TV, and a handy overlay > to display video files on. The login screen displays in the middle of the > CRT, and my start bar doesn't continue beyond the border of my CRT. Apps all > run on the CRT, and I can drag the window to the TV if wanted. This is the > configuration I'd like to have in X. > > So far, all I've been able to get happening with X is: > > 2 different Xservers on each display, or, This is classic X multihead, except its still one X server (as characterised by the fact that you only need open one display connection to draw to either display), but two screens addressable as .0 and .1. Of course, this doesn't work the same as windows or OSX multihead, and so people tend to shun this mode. > 1 Xserver with xinerama spread across both CRT and TV. (this also spread the > gnome bar across both displays, as well as putting the login screen in the > middle of the CRT/TV combo. Apps still display randomly) This is the closest you'll get to XP -- the problem is that you're using software that isn't Xinerama aware, and so they aren't avoiding the boundary between displays. Xinerama is a bit of a hack in many regards which is why you have this problem. C. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
