Multiple Monitors, Same Workspaces

Clayton Shepard claydawg52 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 07:17:11 PDT 2008


Yes, but that won't display the application bar on each monitor or allow you
to rotate workspaces independently will it?

Thanks,

-Clay



On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:57:13 -0500
> "Clayton Shepard" <claydawg52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ...  I don't believe this anywhere near the functionality that I am
> talking
> > about.  If I am mistaken please elaborate on how to do it with xrandr.
>
> Set the virtual desktop nice and large in size, define both displays as
> pointing to the same desktop and then xrandr will let you decide which
> rectangle of the display is on each monitor (and these may overlap)
>
> On Fedora you just select multihead in system-config-display to do this.
>
> Once you've got the virtual desktop then xrandr will let you move
> displays around with xrandr --output whatever --pos XxY
>
> You need drivers which support randr 1.2 and I believe currently you need
> a video card with multiple outputs - you can't do this across two cards,
> but that may have changed by now.
>
> Alan
>
> --
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1200, maximum 4096 x 2048
> VGA connected 1600x1200+1600+0
> TMDS-1 connected 1600x1200+0+0
>
>
>
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