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

From: Eric S Fraga (ucecesf_at_ucl.ac.uk)
Date: 07/13/04

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    Trevor Barton wrote:
    > 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?

    Yes, this is actually my alternative (i.e. when I cannot use XPDF instead of
    Acrobat Reader) fallback position (and it does work perfectly fine with
    XFree86). The disadvantage is that I use xinerama to "prepare" windows (for
    teaching) on my laptop screen and slide them over to the projector screen
    when I need/want them! When xinerama is not enabled, this cannot be done as
    the two screens are different X servers (:0.0 and :0.1, say). Easy to start
    apps on the other screen but not possible to move them across once they've
    started, AFAIK.

    Thanks again!

    eric 

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Eric S Fraga, Chemical Engineering@UCL www.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk/staff/fraga.html
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