On 4 Mar 2002, Hassan Aurag wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop. Under Windows, I can when having the laptop on "port > replicator"/"docking station" enable LCD/CRT and "extend" my desktop to > use both screens. > > After looking for a while, I thought this might be called "xinerama" on > Linux. Anyway, under Linux I can, using Fn+F5 key, enable both screens, > but they are copies of each other (happens under windows too if extended > desktop not enabled). > > No my question is: is it possible to extend my desktop to use both > screens and how?
You might want xinerama if you can do this, but it only helps once you have two different screens; see other posts today for more about xinerama. Can you get two different screens ? Depends on your graphics card. As root, try running X -configure If the resulting config (/root/XF86Config.new) file mentions dual head and shows a layout with more than one screen, you are in luck. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert