Re: FVWM: Need identical display on two monitors

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 22:18:30 +0200

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:17:21PM -0600, Gregg Dameron wrote:
> 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?

No, they can be of any size.

> 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?

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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