On 01/15/2016 10:56 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
There are other ways of getting multi-monitor support other than using
two separate X screens. The most recent and modern way is XRandR. So
instead of epoxying your monitor port, or using X screens, you should
try to use XRandR.
Thanks but I have looked at a lot of documentation for XrandR. I do not
see that XrandR can give me two monitors with distinct desktops.
Changing monitor resolution and position relative to one another can be
accomplished (in Mate or Gnome) with System; Preferences; Hardware;
Monitor. Am I missing some functionality in XrandR?
Separate X screens are complicated, and is likely not the experience
you want. Desktops like GNOME have not supported that for a long time,
and GTK+ has started to remove support for multi-screen X.
Separate X screens gives me EXACTLY what I am after. That is why I asked
the question. Please see this page:
http://jsmylinux.no-ip.org/basic-information/dual-monitors/ and have a
look towards the bottom titled "Individual Panels".
Gnome 2 on CentOS 6 works fine as does Mate on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu
15.10. I have not tried Gnome 3 - at least not that I can recall. It is
almost as bad as Ubuntu Unity.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Ken Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
Good morning and pardon me if this is a dead end question. I have seen some
references to it in the archives including a couple of responses from Intel
folks saying NO. The most recent was dated 2011 so I am hoping the answer
may have changed.
I have a couple of Dell Inspiron 3050 PCs with "Intel HD Graphics". The
machines have two video outputs (Displayport and HDMI) and WILL drive two
monitors. However, I have not been able to establish separate X screens.
Here is a little more detailed information about the hardware:
from lspci:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor
Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 0703
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 91
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f080 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Operating systems include CentOS 7, Ubuntu Mate 15.10 and Linux Mint Mate
17.3 although I do not think that is a limitation.
Can someone offer a definitive NO which will put me out of my misery - I
will fill one of the video sockets with epoxy and never connect two monitors
:-) Or a "yes it is possible" in which case I will continue banging my head
against the problem.
Many thanks,
Ken
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