<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <blockquote cite="mid:37192.62.237.14.130.1305633354.squirrel@go-nix.ca" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> I don't know if it's possible, at least I failed too. But: A generic solution would be to use two <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr">Xephyr</a> X clients/servers on top of the "real" Xorg server. cu, Knut </body> </html>