XFree86 4.0, Enlightenment 16.4, and Xinerama...

[Edward Glowacki]

Holy cow it works!!!!!!!!!! mwhhahahahahaha!!!!!  They *were* actually
working as separate x screens, :0.0 and :0.1, which explains the 2 copies
of enlightenment. Turns out I forgot an

Option "Xinerama"

in my XF86Config file, which I didn't think I needed because the logs said
the module was loaded and I had tried starting X with "startx +xinerama".  
Mutter, looks much better now... 

Only problem now is screen resolution and video card memory.  My primary
monitor is running at insane resolution at 24bpp, so the pixels are a LOT
smaller than those of the secondary monitor which is only attached to a
4mb card (giving 1152x864x24bpp, can't quite get it up to 1280x1024 which
is the monitor's max).  Moving windows from primary to secondary monitor
increases their real-life size by about 60%. =)

Hmm... now to try and find another 4mb card and a monitor around here
somewhere... ;)


-- 
Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Network Services		
Michigan State University	

On 20 Apr 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Heheh, one step ahead of ya there, just got done doing
> > that... ;) Now the cursor works fine, just can't seem to move
> > windows between heads.
> 
> Is that because they're separate X `screens'?  i.e., one of them
> might be :0.0 and the other one :0.1.  I don't know if there's
> any way to deal with that other than running something like x2x.
> 
> You *are* familiar with x2x, right?  If not here's some info:
> 
> blp:~(0)$ apt-cache show x2x
> Package: x2x
> Version: 1.27-5
> Priority: optional
> Section: x11
> Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
> Depends: libc6, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
> Architecture: i386
> Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/x11/x2x_1.27-5.deb
> Size: 17252
> MD5sum: 886ebdc533c991c2c5a9ba82f5fd1754
> Description: Link two X displays together, simulating a multiheaded display
>  x2x joins a pair of X displays together, as if they were a single
>  multiheaded display.  The pointer can be warped between displays,
>  or, depending on how you start x2x, can slide from one display to the
>  other when it runs off the edge of the screen.  Keyboard focus also
>  moves between displays in the way you'd expect, and the X selection
>  propagates around.  At least one of the displays involved (specifically,
>  the one being controlled remotely) must support the XTEST extension.
>  (The servers shipped by Debian support this.)
>  .
>  x2x is useful when you have two displays on the same desk, as you can use
>  a single keyboard and mouse to control both.  If you want to propagate
>  your selections between displays which are not sharing a desk, you might
>  be more interested in the package propsel.  Propsel does not link the
>  displays' keyboard and mouse, which would be confusing in some cases,
>  and can propagate between up to 8 displays, whereas x2x can handle only
>  two at a time.
> installed-size: 39
> 
> > All in all, this multiheaded X stuff is really cool... =)  Time to
> > scrounge up another 4-8mb PCI card and see if I can do tri-headed!! ;)
> 
> For some reason I misread that as "4-8 port PCI [video] hub" and I was
> trying to fit out how such a beast would work.
>