[CS-FSLUG] Multiple Monitors and three programs at once

[Josiah Ritchie]

I used to play with setting up a huge desktop and then the monitor would
act as a 640x480 viewscreen. You could only see that much of the larger
whole at a time. Ultimately, it proved rather burdensome to keep the whole
thing. It's like keeping the entire starscape in your head while looking
through a telescope. Neat in concept, hard to do in practice. Still, I
think that it was even possible was pretty cool. :-)

JSR/


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Stephen McCracken <sjm.mlists at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> >>> Will it run a SEPARATE program to each of the multiple monitors?
> >>> I have had multiple monitors on this system, but they all showed
> >>> the same picture.
>
> > Absolutely, this is all in the config of X and your video cards. You
> > can choose either to mirror the image or have separate screens. If
> > you have a laptop you might run into a video card limit where it
> > will only mirror the laptop screen to the external screen, but I
> > haven't seen that limitation in a long time.
>
> I was running for a long time an LXDE desktop that did really well with
> two monitors (out of three) stretching the whole desktop into one big
> 3840x1080 desktop and using them as one big monitor.  I have a laptop
> and two monitors plugged into a docking station.  The video card only
> has two outputs, so I could use any of the three monitors, but only two
> maximum at a time.  I learned some of the xrandr commands to manipulate
> the screens, but then found the utility ARandR which is a really slick
> front end to all the xrandr shenanigans.
>
> sjm
>
> P.S. I have since switched to a GNOME environment, because I need to use
> VMWare Workstation and it wouldn't see both monitors with LXDE, but can
> use both with GNOME.
>
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