Re: icewm and multiple monitors

From: Chad Whitten (cwhitten_at_nexband.com)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:38:54 -0500

thanks for the tips, although it didnt work. would you mind posting your /
etc/X11/XF86config ?

Louis Sabet wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:01:54 -0500, Chad Whitten wrote:
>
>> anyone got any tips on how to get icewm to work with multiple monitors.
>> ive
>> got a matrox g450 dual head card. running suse 9.0 and xfree86 4.3. my
>> relevant X config stuff is
>>
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>> Identifier "Layout[all]"
>> InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
>> InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
>> Option "Clone" "off"
>> Option "Xinerama" "off"
>> Screen "Screen[0]"
>> Screen "Screen[1]" RightOf "Screen[0]"
>> EndSection
>>
>> i want to have to independent displays in the end. i startup icewm from
>> a .xinitrc file.
>
> If Xinerama is off, I believe icewm will attach to Screen 0 by default
> (although you can explicitly specify which screen to attach to in the
> .icewm preferences file).
>
> In my xinitrc I launch a second instance of icewm and point it at the
> second screen like this:
>
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm --display=:0.0 &
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm --display=:0.1
>
> Of course since one of the window managers (on the first line) is launched
> as a background process, you won't be able to use its logout function. In
> the above example, you would have to use the logout menu on screen 1.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> L