Woohoo! Managed to get two differently configured desktops running
(with the same user) using multihead in XF86Config without xinerama
(the configuration Peter had posted). The nice thing about this is that it
lets you configure two differently sized monitors. I've got one 19" CRT with
1600x1200 resolution and the other a 1280x1024 DFP. Here's the plan.
- Firstly, there's a command line option you can pass to e which doesn't show up on 'enlightenment --help'. Starting e with
enlightenment -single
prevents it from opening slave desktops on multiple screens for the same x display
(ie doesn't create the second desktop on :0.1). In effect, this gives you the same behaviour
as starting an xterm session that I was looking for earlier.
- I did a straight copy of my .enlightenment directory to .enlightenment-secondary for
the second configuration. Note if you have lots of backgrounds/themes stored in here you
might want to store them somewhere else and just symlink to it from both config directories.
- I'm running gdm with a session file that looks at .Xclients for configuration.
My .Xclients file:
exec gnome-settings-daemon &
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver -no-splash -display :0 &
exec /usr/bin/gdesklets &
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment -single -display :0.0 &
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment -single -econfdir /home/snorri/.enlightenment-secondary -display :0.1
Hope this helps the adventurous :)
Cheers, Daniel Stonier.
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:15:25 -0400, Derek Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 08:22, Peter wrote:Geoffrey wrote:
> Have you attempted to change the background on one and see if the other
> remains? You're not using xinerama right? I know that when I was using
> xinerama, it did keep the same on both monitors.
>
I thought I had answered that. YES, If I change a setting on one monitor, it
sticks through the entire E session. Once I quit, E stores the last change
and that is the setup for BOTH monitors on the next start. Yes, using
xinerama is akin to using 1 monitor.
Back on Aug. 4 of this year, I had posted this exact question under the thread of "Bugs with Dual Head?"
After searching my archives, it appears that all of the responses were sent to me off list....
However, the answer to me at that time was the only way to achieve this (two configs for dual headed screens) was to run two sessions as two different users otherwise, both screens read the same configs resulting in the odd behavior noted in this thread (and by me as well :)
Further digging at the nVidia message board for Linux users turned up a known bug in their drivers preventing nVidia users from launching two X-servers to different screens. This will be fixed in a future release.
(I was using the Twinview features of the nVidia driver)
I saw that someone concerned with this thread posted their xconfig file and it contained the nVidia driver. This bug will rear its head once you reach the conclusion that e will need to run as two users to use separate configuration. Unless the e developers have a way of specifying separate configs for separate screens. I was told back in August to not hold my breathe.
Hope this helps!!
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