[PLUG] Two screen presentation software

Jason R. Martin nsxfreddy at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 20:01:36 UTC 2005


On 10/8/05, Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com> wrote:
> # from Jason R. Martin
> # on Saturday 08 October 2005 11:24 am:
>
> >I do not know if such capabilities are possible with other software,
> >but given how much trouble I've had with configuring dual-head on
> >demand, I think there are some other issues to overcome first. For
> >example, it is not possible (that I know of) to add a second display
> >to your system without restarting X, thus forcing you to restart all X
> >applications you have running.
>
> Yeah.  But it is possible to start a second server if the display
> hardware is available.  Some have used vnc to integrate this into the
> already running desktop.  With any non-xinerama setup, you can't drag
> apps to the new display anyway, so I don't see why you wouldn't just do
> this for dual-head on demand.

Hmm, this will require some experimentation.  My laptop has an Nvidia
graphics chip in it, and I'm not sure how the second display is
exported.  When I was experimenting before I was using the
Nvidia-provided drivers, but I tend to avoid those now.  Those drivers
provided dual-display through some proprietary extension, so I'm not
sure they export two displays.  I'll experiment if I have some time
:-)

Jason



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