Hello Adrian, On 11/14/2011 10:55 PM, Ade wrote: > On 14 November 2011 22:32, Michael Thayer <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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. > > Yes, I can confirm that this does work, however for the project Im doing > we wont/cant use Gnome, only X. > > So what we need to be able to do, from say runlevel 3, is type xinit and > for it to open the three displays mentioned above. > > At the moment I test this in runlevel 3 with "xinit xterm" but > unfortunately all three monitors show the xterm session instead of it > showing in only one monitor, and monitors 2 and 3 being :0.1 and :0.2 > > Does that make sense ? Note that I wrote "GNOME display settings OR xrandr". xrandr is very lightweight and most certainly does not require GNOME to work.
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