Re: dual monitors and dual desktops

Hi,
I have i915 and its compiled in with kms support

Kfir

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Jonathan Reed <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you have an nvidia video card? If so I would recommend running
> nvidia-setting to configure your displays. This is what I use after
> trying {a,x,g}randr. I found it a little easier to use with an on-screen
> view of how my monitors would display. Look under the "X Server Display
> Configuration" section. It should be fairly easy to set up. I launch it
> from my startup file because writing out the config to xorg.conf after I
> change my display layout doesnt succeed for reasons i cant remember.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Kfir Lavi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> This program does just what xrandr does.
>> I didn't find a way to separate screens. It seems to define by default a
>> virtual workspace, and let you just put both screens in this virtual
>> workspace.
>> The command at the bottom of this mail does just that.
>>
>> I want that the monitors will not show the same workspace. Both should
>> show different desktops.
>> It is like running xorg twice.
>>
>> Kfir
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Antonio Paiva <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Try arandr.
>>> I have the same setup and arandr does the job perfectly. Moreover, it
>>> saves the settings as script that you can call upon boot.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Antonio
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Kfir Lavi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I have a laptop and an external monitor.
>>> > I would like to have both monitors showing different desktops.
>>> > My aim is to have IRC and Email client on one side, and my shell and
>>> > programming stuff on the other side.
>>> > Currently I managed to do a big virtual workspace with XRANDR, but it
>>> > stretches the browser and it is hard to setup correctly.
>>> > I'm a Fluxbox user, and didn't find a way to define that starching the
>>> > window, will not stretch outside of the monitor I'm on.
>>> > This is why I would like each monitor have it's own desktop.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Kfir
>>> >
>>> > virtual dual monitors:
>>> > xrandr --output LVDS1 --primary --mode 1280x800 --pos 0x0 --auto
>>> --output
>>> > VGA1 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 448x0 --primary
>>> >
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