[ltp] T40p, K.Weidners Multihead approach

[Michael Stilkerich]

Well, I need this for displaying slides wenn doing presentations - hence
having the beamer displaying something different from my LCD isn't that
useful for me. With xinerama I'd have the possibility to overlay the two
Displays which would be ok, but it'd be even more asskickin' if i could
minimize the vnc window and do something else like reading my mail which
would not be displayed on the beamer thus having my whole LCD for it.

Thus
 
 * How do i make the X server start my windowmanager on screen :0.0 but
   do nothing on :0.1 until i fire up my fullscreen vncviewer on that
   screen ? I tried in .xinitrc via the $DISPLAY variable but thats only
   set to :0 at execution time of .xinitrc thus i can't make a decision
   upon the screen..

 * KWs sample has a Option   "MonitorLayout" "NONE, TMDS" in the
   Devices - I wonder why this should work (it does simply do nothing
   for me) as I want to have the Primary Head being my LCD (LVDS) and
   my secondary head being CRT, don't I ?

Mike.

* Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1@comcast.net> [2004-01-28 06:55]:
> Mike,
> I never got the vnc thing to work on a T40 (1024x768 internal monitor, 
> 1280x1024 external panel), but I modified the XF86Config-4 file and got it to 
> work for X4.3.  You can set the Xinerama false/true option to have two 
> independent desktops / a single virtual desktop, respectively (or you can set 
> up two Server Layout sections and start X with the --layout option).  (You 
> may have to modify the resolutions for your hardware.)  For my machine (stock 
> Mandrake 9.2), a 1024x768 projector will slave the laptop LCD display without 
> having to use the file below.
> Paul