presentation on second monitor

mnotgninnep · 05-27-2006, 11:02 AM

is there any way of running powerpoint style slide shows under linux on a second display? I have the box setup with dual monitors working nicely, only to discover that open office, three years on from when they started to develop it, still haven't implemented a choice of which screen to run the presentation on...

MasterC · 05-28-2006, 04:15 AM

???

How have you got dual monitors working? If this is an Nvidia card, and you are using twinview, if you use a screen position of 'left of' or 'right of' you may get it spread across both, but if you use 'clone' then it should only open in one monitor.

I personally don't think it's a problem with OpenOffice, I think it should be a feature expected from the X server (xinerama or Nvidia) not from a piece of software running on top of these things.

Cool

mnotgninnep · 05-28-2006, 06:36 AM

it's an ati radeon 9600 with dual head... I used the drivers from ati.com and used aticonfig to set dual screen. I now have two different desktops on the two screens, and the problem is with open office, as the development in the "bug report" states here. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12719

I need to know if there is any other software that will work with the second screen for powerpoint style presentations...