[Libdlo] running 2 instances of X for multihead display

[akephart at akephart.org]

Marcus,
 
    Good info -- thanks for sharing.
 
    Are you running this script manually, or is it tied to udev?
 
-andrew 


On April 6, 2011 at 3:08 PM Marcus Becker <marcus.disi at googlemail.com>
wrote:


> I had major trouble getting the second display to work with the nvidia
> binary driver on the main display. Lucky me, I found this post:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313190
> To share the wisdom I gathered...
> 
> The script displaylink.sh starts xinit with the second xorg.conf.DL
> and xinit executes the second .xinitrc2 script in my home directory.
> Finally x2x is executed to run in the background, it switched the
> input devices between the displays (mouse).
> 
> The x2x program works flawless and I can run awesome twice to have to
> independent desktops.
> The good thing, this should work with any other card  :)
> 
> One last hint, turn off dpms on the udlfb display (it never wakes up
> again)
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>