[plug] Multiple Xwindows Sessions on Multiple Monitors

I am the LinuxAlien linuxalien at optusnet.com.au
Tue Oct 15 18:10:27 WST 2002


Well I have done all that but when I start KDE i get 2 kde sessions one 
that I can't use, If I try it with xdm(so xinerama is enabled) then i get 
the same display on both screens
Tim
At 19:43 14/10/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>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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>>         while (! broken) { features ++ ; broken = isBroken(features) }
>
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