Re: Reasonable full screen mode for Acrobat Reader or XPDF in xinerama

From: Trevor Barton (tmb_at_tmjabarton.Xplus.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:59:06 +0100

E S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Trevor Barton wrote:
>> E S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>I use Acrobat's Reader or XPDF to display slides for presentations or
>>>teaching. When in non-xinerama mode, full screen on the data projector
>>>works as one would expect. In Xinerama, however, acroread centres the
>>>image over the two displays, not what I want. XPDF places the image on
>>>the "left" screen, also not what I want as my left screen is the one on
>>>the laptop.
>>
>>
>> acroread -geometry widthxheight+xoffset+yoffset
>
> Thanks for the suggestion but, unfortunately, this only applies to the
> initial window and subsequent windows, not the "full screen" mode which
> is used for presentations and doesn't use standard X Window System options.

Oh, sorry, I misconvovulated "full screen".

In Fedora, and I guess other flavours, the xorg configuration lets me use
both xinerama and some other mode which I have not investigated too
fully but I am using at work which gives me two different displays
on both monitors. I'm sorry I don't know much about this other mode,
but in xorg.conf it has something along the lines of "option "xinerama" "off""
in the ServerLayout section, and option something else on, but I'm afraid
I'm not at work and so I don't have the xorg.conf to hand. It's something
like "clone", but anyway it means that I have two completely independant
displays, I can't move windows from one to the other, and maximised
windows only occupy one screen. Perhaps this might do what you want? 

-- 
Trevor Barton