Dual Monitors. Dual X Servers?

THCsphere · 10-12-2009, 12:52 PM

So finally a few days down the road, no issues ofcourse. Twinview / xinerama work fine, but I've been looking around about a possibility of Dual X servers. i'd love to run KDE on one monitor and Flux on the other. I have my aterm script and a few other things setup on Flux, but Somedays I like having my KDE around just for the fact I do keep some stuff on my desktop.

I've read some places, but the one place I found with a HOWTO.... the link was dead.

So I was wondering if anyone knows where I might find a guide or if someone knows how to do it.

Did I mention windows sucks after taking 2 hours to transfer 60GB to an external where it only took a fraction of that time on Slack?

// Wasn't sure if this was hardware or Software, so Posted in this section//

mudangel · 10-12-2009, 01:20 PM

If you Googlesearch "linux multiuser multihead", the first result is this, and similar others; somewhere between this and things like xnest and such, it should be possible

Dinithion · 10-12-2009, 04:55 PM

How many graphics card do you have? I tried this one and a half year ago. I've only got one nvidia card. I tried to setup dualhead with one card. I haven't updated my self the past year, so alot could have happened. But at the time kdm/gdm couldn't use dualhead with one card. xdm actually worked in the sense that I could have two monitors, two keyboard, two mouses, and two x-servers. It worked find just until I logged out. I can't remember exactly what happened, but there was a bug that made the whole deal useless. (Unless you stay logged in at all times). With two cards this should be a lot easier.

Anyway, I would love to hear how this turns out for you. If I don't forget it, I can try to read my self up on this topic while I'm at work this weekend and try it out afterwards if I've got the time. Perhaps there has been some progress

THCsphere · 10-12-2009, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Dinithion

How many graphics card do you have? I tried this one and a half year ago. I've only got one nvidia card. I tried to setup dualhead with one card. I haven't updated my self the past year, so alot could have happened. But at the time kdm/gdm couldn't use dualhead with one card. xdm actually worked in the sense that I could have two monitors, two keyboard, two mouses, and two x-servers. It worked find just until I logged out. I can't remember exactly what happened, but there was a bug that made the whole deal useless. (Unless you stay logged in at all times). With two cards this should be a lot easier.

Anyway, I would love to hear how this turns out for you. If I don't forget it, I can try to read my self up on this topic while I'm at work this weekend and try it out afterwards if I've got the time. Perhaps there has been some progress

I've got an 8400GS with a DVI and a regular output, + Onboard.

I'll Post on my findings as I go, though i've been up 24 hours so far, Im going to sleep soon. I'll post tomorrow and shoot you a pm.

Dinithion · 10-12-2009, 05:09 PM

Ok, then it should work. There are a lot of tutorials out there. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly how I did it, so I can't come with more help right now. I will however try this out my self in the weekend and let you know if I get something to work properly.