On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:42:40 -0400, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Peter,
Your settings are exactly what I've currently got in my XFree86Config.
With one call to /usr/bin/enlightenment in my .xinitrc it actually goes
ahead and spawns two instances of e (these show up on 'ps axu'), but both
use the same configuration - which seems to be where our problem is.
If we could call them separately like you can when starting xterm sessions
from an xinitrc script, and somehow pass args to one of those instances
pointing it to a separate configuration directory, we'd be right, but I'm
not sure it's possible now.
Dan.
hmm...I had thought it would be an easy fiddle to create a second
.enlightenment directory, then edit .xinitrc with something like
/usr/bin/enlightenment -display :0.0 &
/usr/bin/enlightenment -econfdir=.enlightenment-secondary -display :0.1
No, you do not want to do that. E recognizes two displays easily.
and start her up with startx. But...it didn't work (it spawns four
instances of e). Baffling. Now if I do the same thing but with
xterm -display :0.0 &
xterm -display :0.1
in .xinitrc it works as I expected. What is the mechanics behind this -
are they deliberately intended to operate in a different fashion? And
if it is
supposed to spawn across the multiple screen numbers, is it possible to
send each
command unique arguments?
Regards,
Daniel Stonier.
Dan, maybe I'm confused. Are you trying to span a desktop across
monitors? Or, are you trying to keep them separate. Either way, E will
still handle
two monitors for you. Problem is saving things like themes.
If you want to span, you will need to make mods to you XConfig file (or
whatever yours is called) to enable xinerama or twinview or whatever your
graphics card requires. If not, you need to set up two distinct displays.
Here is a snip from my xorg.conf file. Note, each head on the card has
its
own device section. Later, each Screen will attach to a card.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia"
BoardName "GeForce 5200"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "DPMS"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia"
BoardName "GeForce 5200"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "DPMS"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
...
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
This is how I worked it. For xinerama or twinview, you would not do it
this
way.
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