[H-GEN] Dual Montiors

[David Jericho]

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:10:32AM +1000, Anthony Irwin wrote:
> I have a laptop with Debian unstable and an external monitor. I was
> wondering if it is possible to treat the laptop lcd screen as one monitor
> and an external monitor as a second monitor and use them to display
> different information.

It depends to some extent what video solution your laptop has. Most
modern laptops can do two displays without a problem.

> If this is possible could someone please offer google search terms as I
> don't know what to search, also any tips would be good.

What you're most probably looking for is Xinerama, which is part of
XFree 4.x. 

In short, you create two "Device" entries in your XF86Config-4 file,
two "Monitor" definitions, and two "Screen" sections.

Then you simply tell X which side the screens sit in the ServerLayout
stanza. Check out the SERVERLAYOUT section of your XF86Config-4 man
page.

If you need a config example, I can show you the one I have on my
desktop (dual head matrox).

-- 
David Jericho
Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software

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