Re: FVWM: Need identical display on two monitors

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:30:59 -0400

Gregg Dameron <gregg.dameron_at_lmco.com> writes:
> 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?

On Solaris 8, it still fails during configure:

checking for XineramaIsActive in -lXinerama... no

Sun's implementation is different than the XFree86 implementation.

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