Re: Dual monitor displays

[jason kirtland <taroon-list discorporate us>]

Robert wrote:
> I want drive two monitors with my Matrox G450, RHEL on the left and a
> full-screen VMware instance of W2K on the right. Searching back through
> two years of Red Hat and Fedora mail lists I find occasional mentions of
> xinerama, but nothing like a full HOWTO.

If you want a dedicated, full-screen VMware on the right, you might want 
to run traditionally dual-headed- two independent displays, localhost:0.0 
and localhost:0.1 or similar.  I'm not sure exactly how you do this, or 
if the desktop environment will automatically start up on both heads, but 
I would start with "Xinerama off" and "Clone off" in the X config.

Xinerama will merge both screens into a single display, letting you drag 
windows back and forth, etc.  A real "full screen" under Xinerama is 2 
screens wide.  If VMware's full-screen mode is clever enough to handle 
running in half of the screen, and give up the mouse when you exit the 
VMware window area, maybe Xinerama will work for you.

FWIW, you do not need Matrox's drivers for Xinerama on the G450.  The 
standard XFree86 distribution has everything you need.

-jk