Xrandr does not support screen size across two screens

Tobias Kaminsky mail at finswimmer.de
Mon Dec 1 11:18:37 PST 2008


On Sunday 30 November 2008 19:50:28 Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 14:53:54 +0000, Tobias Kaminsky wrote:
> > > I don't know any details about Xephyr, but the current stable release
> > > of the Xserver doesn't allow multihead accross multiple graphic
> > > adapters. This is a planned feature of Xserver 1.6.
> >
> > But I am using X across two screens with 2 graphic adapters?
> > Even mplayer is showing a video across both screens.
> >
> > Or do you mean something else?
>
> Maybe you use Xinerama insteead of RandR?
>
> Regards,
> Tino
Yeah, this is true. I am using Xinerama Option in xorg.conf.

So, there is nothing I can do except for waiting that xorg-server-1.6 will be 
released?

Thanks,
Tobi



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