On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > >>>> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like you >>>> describe. >>> >>> And you can select/paste from one screen to another where the source >>> is a gtk-3 app? >> >> Not sure, need to test with a gtk-3 app. >> >> I run KDE myself. > >>> I should clarify that I mean "screen" in the strict X11 usage. Using >>> Xinerama or the like to spread a single desktop across multiple >>> monitors is still a single screen setup. I'm trying to select text >>> on DISPLAY=:0.0 and paste it on DISPLAY=:0.1 >> >> Not using my desktop atm. >> What does Xorg do by default when it detects multiple screens? > > Not sure -- I'll have to give it a try. IIRC, it just uses the first > one.
At least on my machine, if I start up X11 without a configuration file it only uses one of my three monitors. That behavior may depend on which boards are installed and which board/driver is found first. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want to read my new at poem about pork brains and gmail.com outer space ...