On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Peter Bismuti wrote:
> Interesting. This sounds more like "xinema"(?) than multihead. With
> multihead the screens are divided meaning youn't share windows or drag them
> across monitors but you can drag-n-click between them.
>
> I have multiple video cards with one monitor per card. I wonder if this
> works with XFree86V4.0.
yes, xinerama makes both monitors look like one big one. And yes, it's
from XFree 4.
> What window manager is he using? Is he running KDE?
yes... in the message I mention GNOME with Fvwm2 CVS-snapshot.
-peace
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kendrick Vargas
> To: Peter Bismuti
> Cc: 'fvwm_at_fvwm.org'
> Sent: 2/2/01 2:45 PM
> Subject: Re: FVWM: kde2 support multihead? XFree86v4.? support multihead?
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Peter Bismuti wrote:
>
> > I just heard a rumor that kde2 supports multihead configurations. Can
> > anyone confirm or deny this? If this is true it makes it even more
> > desirable that fvwm become kde2 compliant since my understanding is
> that
> > gnome still cannot support multihead.
> >
> > I also heard that Xfree86V4.? will support multihead. I use
> AcceleratedX
> > now, if this is true I may an interested to see the two will compare.
>
> My boss is running RedHat 7, and he purchased himself the Matrox G450
> (dual-head). He got it set up just fine, X shows it as one continuous
> screen. Therefore whatever window manager you run doesn't know it's two
> physically different screens. He's got gnome setup with some Fvwm2 cvs
> snapshot as the window manager. Works quite well. This is with XFree
> 4.0.something (whatever RedHat 7 ships with).
> -peace
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