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

[John Locke]

Hi,

I have some presentations coming up, and I've been looking at this basic
setup, running the presentation on a vncserver and showing it on the
projector and main display.



On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 13:25 +0200, Carl-Fredrik Enell wrote:

> However, is there a way to switch on the external screen without
> restarting the X server? 

I was wondering if this might be possible by running a separate X
server? I'd love to be able to plug in the projector in my already
running Thinkpad, and run a script that starts a second X server for the
projector only, without affecting my original X session. 

I wouldn't even need keyboard/mouse control, if I just had it start a
vnc client connected to the vncserver session. Is this possible, using
only the built-in video card? Or do I have to run a single Xserver to
control both heads?

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John Locke
"Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems"
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