[plug] fluxbox and dual screens

[Adam Davin]

Hello All, 

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 16:30:19 +0800
Adam Davin <byteme-its at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:19:06 +0800
> "Daniel Foote" <freefoote at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I have set up two monitors, with a different resolution on both.
> > > its working ok, except I can figure out how to drag a window from
> > > one monitor to the other.  The mouse cursor jumps screens fine,
> > > but leaves any windows or icons behind - is it possible to grag
> > > from one screen to the other?
> > 
> > You're missing the Xinerama extention in the X config. Add to your
> > serverflags section:
> > 
> > Option "Xinerama"
> > 
> > And then the two monitors will appear as one head. As long as your
> > window manager supports Xinerama properly, you're set.
> > 
<snip> 

> The way I handle this situation is using the following line in the
> screen section of the xorg.conf file:
> Option         "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1024x768, 1024x768;
> 800x600,800x600; 640x480,640x480; 1280x1024,NULL"
> 
> (All on one line)
> The last entry sets up the Xserver to use just one screen, still with
> the entire desktop. I use this when using games as otherwise they try
> to sit in the middle of the two screens (ie half on one and half on
> the other. Rather difficult to play...)
> 
> For the record I am using XFCE4 with 2x19" lcd running at 1280x1024 on
> each with xinerama. 

Another thought, I am using a nvidia dual head card, I don't know if
this is supported by other cards as well.. I know I did some reading
through the NVIDIA readme files to get these lines.  


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