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Well as the topic says, I have dualscreen and fullscreen makes programs fullscreen the whole desktop (fills both screens) but I want fullscreen to make them only fill up one screen.
here's the part of my xorg.conf that I think might be helpful.
Uhm, When I changed to archlinux fluxbox gave fullscreen on only one monitor, but now I changed to gentoo, and using the same xorg,conf , .fluxbox/init and menu it still gives me fullscreen on both monitors.
One other problem is that when I start warcraft3 with cedega, it puts it on the wrong monitor, this didn't either happen in archlinux.
Originally posted by firedance Uhm, When I changed to archlinux fluxbox gave fullscreen on only one monitor, but now I changed to gentoo, and using the same xorg,conf , .fluxbox/init and menu it still gives me fullscreen on both monitors.
One other problem is that when I start warcraft3 with cedega, it puts it on the wrong monitor, this didn't either happen in archlinux.
You want to comment out the Option "Xinerama" "on" line in the config file and make sure that you have Load "xtrap" in the modules section in the file. If this does not do what you want can you post the config file so we can see it.
This gives me two workspaces, and what I want is one big but with apps that maximizes on one of the monitors.
heres my xorg.conf
-Agh it was to big! I'll put in the most important parts...
Code:
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx" # libglx.a
# Load "dri" # libdri.a
# Load "xtrap"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
HorizSync 31.5 - 80.5
VertRefresh 60 - 85
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 0"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # no device found at config time
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 1"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # no device found at config time
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "backingstore"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" # "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
# Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "backingstore"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" # "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
# Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
# The Identifier line must be present
Identifier "Server Layout"
# Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
# the relative position of other screens. The four names after
# primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
# of the primary screen.
Screen "Screen1"
Screen "Screen0" RightOf "Screen1"
# Screen "Screen0"
# Screen "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
# Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
# optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
# used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
# "SendCoreEvents".
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Distribution: Xubuntu 9.10, Gentoo 2.6.27 (AMD64), Darwin 9.0.0 (arm)
Posts: 1,152
Rep:
I had this same problem with gentoo, xfce and 3 monitors the problem is the xinerama use flag isn't set in gentoo by default so while xorg supports xinerama your apps don't add xinerama to your use flags in /etc/make.conf mine looks like this:
Code:
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
USE="-gnome -kde gtk gtk2 dvd alsa jack cdr xinerama"
PORTAGE_NICENESS=6
This problem has little to do with your xorg.conf. As long as you can load fluxbox and move windows between the two screens then Xinerama is working correctly. The problem lies with fluxbox. Go to a terminal and type:
Code:
fluxbox -info
This will list options that are compiled into fluxbox. If one of the lines is "-XINERAMA" then you do NOT have xinerama support. You need to re-compile fluxbox with the --enable-xinerama configuration argument.
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