Hello Adrian, On 11/14/2011 04:10 PM, Ade wrote: > Im using multiple monitors in VB and Im struggling to achieve what I > want. I think it may be a bug but I wanted to fire to the mailing list > first in case Im missing something > > What I want is to run X so that display :0.0 is on monitor 1 , display > 0:1 is on monitor 2 and display :0.2 is on monitor 3 > > I have done this with a physical setup by simply saying Option "Clone" > "0" and Option "Xinerama" "0" in xorg.conf but in VirtualBox I get my > screens cloned regardless of these settings. Turning on Xinerama > disables the cloning but then I have one big display :0.0 and as I say > this is not what I want. > > Am I missing something or did I find a bug ? Set up a virtual machine with the number of monitors that you need, then use GNOME display settings or xrandr inside the guest to set up your virtual desktop.
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