[Intel-gfx] Multiple X screens

Knut Petersen Knut_Petersen at t-online.de
Wed May 18 13:07:05 CEST 2011


>> Getting this to work is indeed trivial. In fact, GNOME auto-detects the
>> display, and extends my desktop by default. This is not what I want.
>>
>> What I want is not to extend my desktop, but to have an X server that
>> consists of multiple (in this case two) separate screens. 
>
> I don't know if it's possible, at least I failed too. But: A generic solution
> would be to use two Xephyr <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr> X clients/servers on top of the "real" Xorg server.
>

I realized that Xephyr has no "geometry" option. Have a look atthis discussion. <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12221>

cu,
 knut
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