Rob If I get your drift, you don't actually want an extended desktop, but two seperate window managers working on seperate monitors?
If so, have a look at the front page of last week's Linux Weekly News about the extension to the X environment to handle multiple devices - is that what you were aiming at or the extended desktop? E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 13 February 2008 00:16 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual monitors with independent desktops Steve Cook wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:45 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> The graphics card on my PC has dual DVI video output (it's an ATI Radeon >> X300). >> >> At the moment I'm only using a single display on a 17" LCD monitor, >> however I was wondering if it's possible to run two screens but >> indepdendently of each other. >> >> For example, on my main monitor I'd like to have my usual programs >> (Firefox, Thunderbird etc) running, but on the second monitor I'd like >> to be able to send the output of Mplayer for playing full screen videos >> but not have the windows from the other screen use this monitor. >> >> Does anyone know if this sort of thing is possible? >> > This is the default behaviour if xinerama, twin view, etc. is not used. > > steve > > Actually looking at this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama#Dual_display_X_without_Xinerama I think dual screens without Xinerama but two independent window managers might do the job. Basically what I want to do is send the second monitor output to an LCD TV (but not have a complete MythTV installation) which I can just play videos on. Thanks for the tips Steve, I'll have a read up. Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
