Re: Dual Monitors

[Iago Rubio <iago rubio hispalinux es>]

Hi Daniel, How things are going ? :)

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:24, Daniel Miralles GarcÃa wrote:
> Another question related to dual monitors...
>
> I'm using gdk/gtk for developing, but final desktop will be probably
> blackbox (embedded system on a p166). gdk system calls work also on
> blackbox?

Yes sure, both interacts with an X server. No problem at all. 

But blackbox, will not include GTK libs. You must install them yourself.

>  And dual monitor system?

It depends on the box you'll use, the hardware and kernel configuration.

> p.s. by the way, what does "xinerama" mean? (yes, i'm close to newbie) i 
> think there's something like "expanding" the same desktop onto two 
> monitors...

You're right.

[quote]
Xinerama is an extension to XFree86 Release 6 Version 4.0 (X4.0) which
allows applications and window managers to use the two (or more)
physical displays as one large virtual display.
[/quote]

 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/index.html


Un saludo.
-- 
Iago Rubio