Nekopa
10-06-2001, 09:43 AM
Greetings and Salutations!
Okay, I am happy, but completely lost. I have wrestled for a day trying to set up two monitors to work with my Slack 8 distro. In the process I lost X, and other such nastiness. I had to unplug my vid cards just to get back to having one monitor that would work in X.
After all that hubbub I decided to leave the dual monitor thing alone for a while and just learn a little more about X window system for a while. I like enlightenment, and I tried gnome 1.4 for a while (Nautilus sucks IMHO) and decided to try KDE which I thought sucked, but I think I was using an old version (Drake 7.0) The new KDE is kinda cool, sleek and not cartoony at all.
So here I am logging in and out using KDM and my mouse disapears off the screen. Hmmmm... So on a hunch I turn on my second monitor, and there is X! Then when I log in I have a perfect (asides from resolution) desktop on my second screen!
How the hell did this happen! I like it, but I don't know where the config files are to get the resolution right. And I am thinking of renaming KDM Merlin.
Can anyone shed any light on this at all?
Lee
P.S. I didn't invoke startx with -- +xinerama or anything, I just ran kdm from the CLI. And my XF86Config files have no mention of second screens or screen layout :confused:
Okay, I am happy, but completely lost. I have wrestled for a day trying to set up two monitors to work with my Slack 8 distro. In the process I lost X, and other such nastiness. I had to unplug my vid cards just to get back to having one monitor that would work in X.
After all that hubbub I decided to leave the dual monitor thing alone for a while and just learn a little more about X window system for a while. I like enlightenment, and I tried gnome 1.4 for a while (Nautilus sucks IMHO) and decided to try KDE which I thought sucked, but I think I was using an old version (Drake 7.0) The new KDE is kinda cool, sleek and not cartoony at all.
So here I am logging in and out using KDM and my mouse disapears off the screen. Hmmmm... So on a hunch I turn on my second monitor, and there is X! Then when I log in I have a perfect (asides from resolution) desktop on my second screen!
How the hell did this happen! I like it, but I don't know where the config files are to get the resolution right. And I am thinking of renaming KDM Merlin.
Can anyone shed any light on this at all?
Lee
P.S. I didn't invoke startx with -- +xinerama or anything, I just ran kdm from the CLI. And my XF86Config files have no mention of second screens or screen layout :confused: