Charles Cox wrote: > >> You could create two Xephyr instances and then join them together >> using Xdmx. I don't believe we bundle Xdmx so you would need >> to build it yourself or find a repository that has it. > > So if I understand Xdmx correctly, it takes displays on other X > servers and turns them into a single display. With "+xinerama" > they're one big screen; without, they're sub-screens of the one > display (i.e. :1.0 :1.1 :1.2 etc.) > > Xephyr creates a virtual display in a window on top of a regular X server. Correct. We would want Xdmx to render to each Xephyr instance bound to a different screen. > > So if I create two Xephyr displays/windows and then aggregate them > together with Xdmx, that seems like essentially the same thing as a > multihead setup with a standard X server. I don't see how this would > accomplish my goal of displaying the same client's window on both > screens at the same time. > > Maybe I'm missing some trick with Xdmx... As you noted above Xdmx is normally used to span a desktop across multiple displays, like Xinearma or NVIDIA's TwinView (other than Clone). However, Xdmx can be configured to give both displays the same origin. A quick search found fairly complete instructions:
http://intellilinux.info/node/25
