I recently got 3d acceleration (or what little there is to be had) working for my geforce 4 Ti 4200. Anyway, I've got 2 monitors hooked into the card, a 1920x1200 CRT on the SVGA and a 1280x1024 LCD on the DVI. Obviously, the higher resolution monitor took priority once I started up xfce; but the LCD was entirely disabled (it was running as a clone on the terminal). I was wondering how I'd set them up so that they each show separate workspaces in the pager; I'm wanting to have the actual GIMP canvas on the LCD on the right (slight magnetic distortion that can't be solved with built in degausser on the CRT) with the toolbars and brushes on the CRT. Also as a side note- has anyone gotten kwin opengl compositing on a Ti 4200?

Hey, I also have dual monitor, it's pretty simple, you should have already the native driver from nvidia, once installed, it should add a "Nvidia settings" somewhere in the menus (it does this automatically on KDE, I expect it to behave the same way with xfce...).

So simply go to the official nvidia settings (or in a xterm execute "/usr/bin/nvidia-settings" ), it should give you control on that.

Cheers.

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Actually it is the VGA outlet that gets the priority with the nVidia driver.
As NoStressHQ said, use the NVidia settings program to setup the dual monitors.
In KDE, use the System Settings -> Display and Monitor to configure your displays. You will need to have the VGA output as an Absolute position with your DVI outlet as "Right of VGA" to achieve your desired arrangement.

I found it and set it up properly, but does anyone know how to set it so that when I maximize a window, it only maximizes on the one monitor? Again, using xfce assuming its DE dependent.

EDIT:Alright, for some reason when I dropped into the shell for a bit of coding then started xfce back up again, the left hand monitor did not have the same stretched wallpaper and panel, but maximized windows stay on their monitor, and I can drag across. Can I do this with stretched panel and wallpaper?

Yes, you can set the panel to stretch across both monitors. Right click on a panel, under customize panel. There is a drop down box for span monitors, full width, and normal width. On my setup, I actually have a patterned wallpaper, so it just repeats over and over so it looks like the same one.

Besides, obviously, cutting the wallpaper in half in gimp or something, is there a way to stretch the wallpaper across both monitors?

yes, resize and cut it using gimp... then place individual wallpapers on each monitor =)

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