[ltp] T40p, K.Weidners Multihead approach

[Paul Kaplan]

Like I said before, I never got the vnc thing to work.  In my XF86Config-4 
file, if Xinerama is set to false, I get two (mostly) independent iterations 
of my window manager.  The mouse can move between the screens by moving it to 
the edge shared between the two screens.  When you launch an app, it loads to 
the screen the mouse is on.  What you can't do is drag windows between the 
screens as when Xinerama is set to true.  With kde I wound up with a Desktop1 
directory that contained the second screen's configs.  If you took this 
approach, you should be able to set a screen blank on the second screen (and 
probably password protect the wake-up.

Alternatively, you might launch two different X servers to drive separate 
monitors and then switch between w/ CTRL+ALT-F7, CTRL+ALT-F8.
Paul

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 02:01 pm, Michael Stilkerich wrote:
> 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