Hello,

I am a long time linux user of the Xinerama and other technologies for extending a desktop to multiple monitors. However when I travel with my laptop I miss the multi-monitor support I enjoy at home. Recently I acquired a second laptop for a low price. Both laptops are running Fedora 10 and 11. I use Gnome as my primary desktop environment.

I know about synergy. I use synergy all the time to control the screen of other Windows / Linux systems.

I would like to know, can I sit both my primary and secondary laptops together and achieve a Xinerama-like extended desktop environment? Ideally I would like to start a GNOME session on my primary laptop. And then start a X-Windows Desktop on my secondary laptop and extend my primary laptop's desktop onto it. I would like to be able to move Windows from the primary desktop to the secondary laptop desktop.

Would I need to use synergy to do this with some other bit of X-Windows technology? Or is there X-Windows technology that will do all this for me?

I am familiar with X Windows ability to display applications remotely. I am also familiar with Nomachine's NoX.

Thank you,
Rob

Keep dreaming, as far as I know there is no way. It would be like having one local screen and a remote screen? I've had multiple monitors setup in Fedora 10 & 11 before so that's not the problem; you could hook up the external monitor(vga/dvi) to something and extend it that way.

You can achieve this running VirtualBox on your primary machine, but you probably would not want this?

Maybe NX from NoMachine could help. Check their website.

XDmx might be the solution to this problem. I am going to investigate it and see if I can compile the code on a modern Fedora platform and make it work with a modern Gnome desktop.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/op...ry/os-mltihed/