At the moment I have twinview working fine - 1024x768 on the CRT-Monitor, and (set to clone mode) the top left of the 1024x768 screen visible on the TV.

To watch films I have to set both screens to 800x600 cloned and set XINE to full-screen. That allows fullscreen TV output. But that makes my GUI all big and clunky so when I've finished I switch the CRT back to 1024x768. To change resolutions, Mandrake wants me to reboot (yawn).

There's gotta be a better way of doing this that I don't know. Is it possible to "squash" my whole 1024x768 CRT screen into a 800x600 resolution for the cloned TV?

Perhaps if I don't use cloned mode I can drag XINE onto the second monitor and fullscreen it there? (not at my machine so I can't try this idea now)

I heard that maybe I could use:

ctrl alt + (numpad)
ctrl alt - (numpad)

to quickly switch between metamodes? I've not tried that so I don't know if it works or not.

I've read up on metamodes but not sussed a better way of doing things yet.

How do you do yours?