can xrandr "split" a 2560x1024 screen into two separate 1280x1024 screens?

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 12:21:17 PST 2010


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Lara Michaels
<laramichaels1978 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> I know how to use xrandr to position screens relative to each other when I have two monitors plugged into my computer, but now I need something else. Any help is much appreciated:
>
> Can I use xrandr to split (what it thinks is) a 2560x1024 screen into two separate monitors? I am using a Matrox Dualhead2go, which connects into my laptop and presents itself to the video card as a very wide 2560x1024 screen.
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> I need to do this so that, eg, maximizing a window to "full screen" maximizes to be 1280x1024, rather than spanning it over the entire two screens.
>

You'd need something like fake libxinerama:
http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/fakexinerama/

Alex

> Thank you for any help!
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> ~lara
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