[nflug] Multiple Monitors

[eric]

I know what you mean ...esp when you try to maximize a window to just
one computer screen


joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:

> I recently got 2 monitor working on my Linux Box with my Radion 9200
> (two video outs on the card). It
> is working with MergedFB (that might just be an ATI thing, I'm really
> not sure). My desktop stretches across both monitors (which are both
> almost identical; same color depth, same resolution) giving me a
> resolution of 2048x768. Is there any way that I can have it so that my
> primary desktop is just on one monitor? And then I can use the other
> monitor to just drag shit into? The stetched desktop is cool, but for
> my purposes I have a lot of stuff open, but each would be in one monitor
> or the other, and I would need to move from one screen to the next
> quickly. And also, I might add another monitor to the mix in the future.
> I've been looking into it and it looks like "xinerama" is what I need to
> get working. When I try to use it (Option "Xinerama" "true") everything
> appears to go off ok, but my desktops are just mirrored. The mouse and
> windows move the same in each (not from one to the next) as if I had
> done no monitor configuration at all.
>
> Is Xinerama what I want to do? I'm not really sure. I need someone to
> say "Yes Josh, you need Xinerama working" or "No Josh, you are barking
> up the wrong tree, look into flibbityflabbityfloo"
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Josh J
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