[ltp] Last desperate attempt to show off my Debian Thinkpad at a conference

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:40:21 +0100, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> Michael Hagemann wrote:
> > Bob Alexander wrote:
> >
> >> I love my desktop. It shows Debian, GNOME, KDE appls and even
> >> (shudder) IE6 and Lotus Notes under WINE.
> >>
> >> I have made many many attempts, veiled by my ignorance, to obtain the
> >> same a 1024x768 screen mirroring my internal 1400x1050 LCD panel but
> >> am stuck with two situations:
> >>
> >> 1) My "xinerama" setup is ABSOLUTELY GREAT ... the second screen shows
> >> on the projector perfectly. But while giving my lecture on the beauty
> >> of Debian (to a paying audience yuk yuk yuk) this will not be very
> >> practical. BTW I have discovered with horror that if I move my OO
> >> impress on the external projector and then click "run the slide show"
> >> it shows on the internal LCD !!!
> >
> >
> > Did you try to _start_ ooimpress on the second screen?  I didn't try
> > xinerama yet, but it should be something along the lines of `ooimpress
> > -display :1 <file>'.
> >
> > I'll try this setup, too...
> >
> 
> LOL ... thank you Michael ... seems I have it another bug, ehm feature :(
> 
> If I start ooimpress on the LCD (the second screen is absolutely empty
> and has only the wallpaper) and drag the ooimpress window to the
> projector screen everything looks very nice on my wall ...
> BUT
> when I click on the start slideshow guess in the projector screen on
> what screen is the presentation shown ? Correct on the LCD screen :(

if you are using mergedfb try 
Option "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" "true" 

that will switch which head the drivers announces as screen0 for
psuedo-xinerama.

you can also try swapping the order:
Option "CRT2Position" "LeftOf" 

then the CRT will be the first head.

Alex

> 
> Issuing a ooimpress -display :1 gives an error like not being able to
> access that window ... tried with xhost + but same stuff !!!
> 
> >
> >> 2) My "single" setup shows on the projector a clipped AND distorted
> >> mirror of what I see on the internal LCD.
> >
> >
> > You might want to try a fixed CRT2VRefresh rate.  I had success with 50Hz.
> >
> 
> I tried using "50" and also "50-50" in the CRT2VRefresh option but that
> does not seem to work. I wonder if it's a bug in Debian's version of
> XFree86 ? :( :(
> 
> >
> > good luck,
> > michael
> 
> Thank you but I start to fear that I will have to give my lecture on
> Linux distros with MS XP :( :( :(
> 
> Bob
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