Re: where does fluxbox get dual screen info?

Hans Schippers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Answering my own question, it gets its info from the XINERAMA
extension, which can be queried like this:

xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA

The heads showing up there determine the heads used in fluxbox.

Apparently the fglrx driver doesn't enable XINERAMA by default, so it
has to be done manually, in the ServerLayout section of xorg.conf:

Option "Xinerama" "True"

Cheers,

Hans

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Hans Schippers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Somehow fluxbox seems to be able to find out that I have a two screen
> setup (which I configure through xrandr).
>
> This works fine with a radeon driver.
>
> However, when I change the driver to fglrx, I still have two screens
> but fluxbox sees them as one big screen (so for example, the choice
> for the slit to be put on a specific screen is gone).
>
> Hence my question, which info does fluxbox use to determine the number
> of screens? And how can this be influenced?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hans
>
> --
> Dr. Hans Schippers
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> Formal Techniques in Software Engineering (FoTS)
> University of Antwerp
> Middelheimlaan 1
> 2020 Antwerpen - Belgium
> Phone: +32 3 265 37 88
> Fax: +32 3 265 37 77
> http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~hschipp/
>
> A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment
>  -- Willis Player
>



-- 
Dr. Hans Schippers
Doctor-Assistant
Formal Techniques in Software Engineering (FoTS)
University of Antwerp
Middelheimlaan 1
2020 Antwerpen - Belgium
Phone: +32 3 265 37 88
Fax: +32 3 265 37 77
http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~hschipp/

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment
  -- Willis Player

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