On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:01:44 -0400, Rob wrote in message <20120428010144.ga4...@aurora.owens.net>:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:25:28PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > Actually, I now need to figure out how to make the two screens > > > act as one. Currently, I can open applications on either screen > > > but I can't, for instance, drag an application from one screen to > > > the other. I'm not sure if I can do that with separate video > > > cards, though. > > > > > > -Rob > > > > ..well, play with the GUI menus, e.g. KDE's "System Settings" -> > > "Display and Monitor" -> "Multiple Monitors" or Gnome's (AFAIR) > > "System" -> "Preferences" -> "Display and Monitor" etc as you > > fool around with the plug-'n-play things 'n see what happens. ;o) > > > I've tried gnome-display-properties as well as lxrandr. Both only > detect one monitor. But it depends on which of my monitors I launch > the application from. In other words, they only detect the monitor > on which the application is running. > > So I guess I have something fundamentally wrong in my xorg.conf, or > this is just not possible with separate video cards. ..ok, you have one screen on your mainboard display er, plug and one in one of your 2 graphic card plugs. Tried the other one of the 2? > Something even more interesting: I set up fluxbox to show workspaces > 1-4 on my primary monitor, and workspaces 5-6 on my secondary monitor. > Fluxbox lets me "send" a window to a different workspace, but I can't > send from workspace 1 to workspace 5 or 6. I can only send to a > different workspace on the same monitor. ..ok, now, _that_ might warrant its own thread. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120428032510.62739...@celsius.lan
