Re: FVWM: Need identical display on two monitors

From: Gregg Dameron <gregg.dameron_at_lmco.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:17:21 -0600

Dominik Vogt wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:05:09AM +1000, Russell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got two video cards installed with their own monitors.
> > I'm trying to get both monitors to have an identical display.
>
> Assuming you use XFree86, you have to decide if you want to use
> Xinerama or an old style multi head setup. With Xinerama, you
> get one big logical screen (usually ":0.0") and you can move
> windows between the two screens, but both screens must have the
> same number of bitplanes (colours).

With Xinerama, do both screens also have to have the same display height
and width?

Has anyone successfully run fvwm2 on Solaris's Xsun in Xinerama mode? If
so, any lessons learned? Can the graphics cards be heterogeneous
provided the color depths are the same?

Gregg Dameron


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