On 14 November 2011 23:09, Michael Thayer <michael.tha...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello Adrian,
>
>
> On 11/14/2011 10:55 PM, Ade wrote:
>
>> On 14 November 2011 22:32, Michael Thayer <michael.tha...@oracle.com
>> <mailto:michael.thayer@oracle.**com <michael.tha...@oracle.com>>> wrote:
>> On 11/14/2011 04:10 PM, Ade wrote:
>> Im using multiple monitors in VB and Im struggling to achieve what
>> I
>> want. I think it may be a bug but I wanted to fire to the
>> mailing list
>> first in case Im missing something
>>
>> What I want is to run X so that display :0.0 is on monitor 1 ,
>> display
>> 0:1 is on monitor 2 and display :0.2 is on monitor 3
>>
>> I have done this with a physical setup by simply saying Option
>> "Clone"
>> "0" and Option "Xinerama" "0" in xorg.conf but in VirtualBox I
>> get my
>> screens cloned regardless of these settings. Turning on Xinerama
>> disables the cloning but then I have one big display :0.0 and as
>> I say
>> this is not what I want.
>>
>> Am I missing something or did I find a bug ?
>>
>> Set up a virtual machine with the number of monitors that you need,
>> then use GNOME display settings or xrandr inside the guest to set up
>> your virtual desktop.
>>
>> Yes, I can confirm that this does work, however for the project Im doing
>> we wont/cant use Gnome, only X.
>>
>> So what we need to be able to do, from say runlevel 3, is type xinit and
>> for it to open the three displays mentioned above.
>>
>> At the moment I test this in runlevel 3 with "xinit xterm" but
>> unfortunately all three monitors show the xterm session instead of it
>> showing in only one monitor, and monitors 2 and 3 being :0.1 and :0.2
>>
>> Does that make sense ?
>>
> Note that I wrote "GNOME display settings OR xrandr". xrandr is very
> lightweight and most certainly does not require GNOME to work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
>
> Ah yes, my mistake. OK so I have some reading to do as I didnt realise I
could use Xrandr to do the display :0.1 :0.2 thing
Thanks for the help. Adrian
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