Re: multiple displays

[chopps merit edu (Christian E. Hopps)]

Eric Windisch <southpark@nni.com> writes:

> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > chopps@merit.edu (Christian E. Hopps) writes:
> > > How can I create panels on other displays?  I tried running panel with
> > > a --display arg, and while this does work it seems to want to use the
> > > same configuration as the primary display uses.  I have 2 monitors and I
> > > use them for different purposes so I don't want the same panels on them.
> > >
> >
> > It won't work, unfortunately, as far as I know. You can only have one
> > panel. Should be fixed, but is quite hard to fix.
> >
> > Havoc
> 
> You can have multiple panels on one desktop, it shouldn't be hard to do this
> with two screens.

Right this would be fine.  I treat both screens as a signle session.  If 
I could cause the new panel to open on the other screen I would happy.
I would want the pager to properly manage the other screen (right now I
have no pager on the other screen).

> Btw, how did you setup multihead? the best i can get my system  to do is
> console on one screen and X on the other, unless i use XGGI at 640x480.
> Xfree86 pre-4.0 didn't compile for me :(

I use an ATI xpert at play for the primary and a Matrox G200 for the
secondary and 3.9.16 works when configured appropriately.  I can send
you the config once you get X compiled :)  Its important to set the G200 
up as the secondary since 3.9.x support for it is the best.

Thanks,
Chris.