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

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:22:03 -0800, John Locke <mail@freelock.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 

you can run a second X server on another vt and them switch to it
using ctrl-alt-Fx. however you can't  start x servers on each head
separately and have them accessable at the same time.

Alex

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