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Re: [TCLUG:18782] Dual monitor saga continues (XF86Config for DualMatrox)



You are correct.  No xinerama will enable duplicate images on both
monitors.  Using  gnome with enlightenment works like a charm.  Both
screens act as one really big screen.  Sawmill works fine as well.

From your screenshot, it looks like you're having sync problems.  Monkey
around with some of the device settings (usually provided commented out by
default when X --configure detects the devices).  What I posted is just
the result of some heavy trial-and-error and spite for Xi (the overclock
bit).

Peter Lukas

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Bob Tanner wrote:

> Quoting Tim Sandquist (tsandqui@yahoo.com):
> > I've noticed this with other windowmanagers too.  It seems like E is the
> > only wm that handles xinerama decently.  Hopefully the other windowmanagers
> > will catch up soon.  WindowMaker works fairly well, but there are still 
> > some issues.  Plain multihead might work better for now.  It's not as
> > cool but it might cause less irritation.
> 
> E is screwing up the more I play with it. :-(
> 
> Now I am getting ghost images of windows on screen0 on screen1, it looks like
> large sized windows 'bleed' into screens (windows close to the edge).
> 
> So, anyone running dual heads, but not using xinerama?
> 
> It looks like if you run dual heads (non xinerama), then you have 2 copies of
> everything running?
> 
> 2 X servers, 2 WM, 2 xscreensavers, etc..? Is this right?
> 
> If this is the way it's support to work, then running Gnome on dual-heads is a
> major memory sucker.
> 
> Anyone running like this?
> 
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