[plug] Multiple Xwindows Sessions on Multiple Monitors

I am the LinuxAlien linuxalien at optusnet.com.au
Mon Oct 14 19:43:40 WST 2002


Well it is between a i810 AGP card and a S3 Virge DX pci card. I also use 
KDE as my window manager.
I will try all thats been suggested
Tim
At 17:02 14/10/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>>If you're using two Nvidia cards (like I am), you may have to use the
>>XFree86 "nv" driver (rather than the "nvidia" binary driver) - the nvidia
>>driver was incredibly unstable in a two-monitor setup.
>
>I've found it dies in a hurry if you have multiple Xservers running on the 
>same card but different vts, too. It'd be nice - I could say to my various 
>housemates "if the screen is locked just hit CTL-ALT-F8 to get a login"... 
>but no, not with NVidia drivers it appears.
>
>>Also, the only
>>window managers that seem to like Xinerama are KDE3 and Sawfish. (*sniff*
>>WindowMaker certainly doesn't.)
>
>Enlightenment is very good under Xinerama... once recompiled to support it 
>since the Debian defaulkt build doesn't.
>
>Also, wrt to the (unrelated) comments on rxvt problems, I've found my fix 
>- man rxvt. I was quoting the argument to -e and it didn't like that _at_ 
>_all_ - it want's separate arguments eg
>rxvt -e telnet uk
>not
>rxvt -e "telnet uk"
>
>still, it should probably complain rather than die mysteriously.
>
>--
>Craig Ringer
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>

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