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jojo6311

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Registered: 2011-09-29

Posts: 3

Starting a Second X server for games

I just recently decided to get some of the indie games i got on my windows partition working on my Arch partition. I tried to fire them up like i would any other game i have on here, but when i fullscreen it centers the picture between my two monitors because i have twinview going. I've tried to get an sh script that runs the game in a new x server but i have to physically have 2 10-monitor.conf files and rename one to my normal config and 1 to my game config and rename it back and forth depending on what i want to do, is there a way then when i run the xinit command to use a different monitor config file then 10-monitor.conf?

Current Script:
xinit /home/jordan/games/gamefolder/voxatron/vox -- :1 -xf86config /etc/X11/xorg-game.conf

and the  xorg-game.conf is the correct settings for just one monitor, but it then just goes to my 10-monitor.conf file for the actual configuration

Last edited by jojo6311 (2011-11-14 13:53:40)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Starting a Second X server for games

Have you tried using a subdirectory, like /etc/X11/games/xorg.conf for games and /etc/X11/standard/xorg.conf for the usual setup?

jojo6311

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Registered: 2011-09-29

Posts: 3

Re: Starting a Second X server for games

when i run the xinit, it immediately goes to the 10-monitor.conf, and i have tried to have it go to the 10-monitorGame.conf i made but it says its an invalid file path. If i move anywhere outside my /X11 directory it says its an invalid directory

cybertorture

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Registered: 2010-05-05

Posts: 339

Re: Starting a Second X server for games

Hello jojo6311,
I am getting desired efect with just 1 10-monitor.conf file on XFCE4, exception for urbanterror witch start on just 1st monitor but second stays on... everything else just suspend my 2-nd monitor and use 1-st in fullscreen and when i quit the game i got my dualscreen up and running

here is my conf file

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf 
#10-monitor.conf 
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "DualSreen"
    Screen       0 "Screen0"
    Screen       1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" #Screen1 at the right of Screen0
    Option         "Xinerama" "0" #To move windows between screens
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    Option         "Enable" "true"
    #Option   "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    Option         "Enable" "true"
    #Option   "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Screen         0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Screen         1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth          24
    EndSubSection
    Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1920x1080_60 +0+0, CRT-1: 1280x1024_60 +1920+0; CRT-0: 1920x1080 +0+0, CRT-1: NULL"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth   24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth          24
    EndSubSection
    Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1920x1080_60 +0+0, CRT-1: 1280x1024_60 +1920+0; CRT-0: 1920x1080 +0+0, CRT-1: NULL"
EndSection

i m unsure if screen1 - metamodes section is needed but it works
i m having only 1 thing in my env

SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=0

Hope this will help you

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jojo6311

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Registered: 2011-09-29

Posts: 3

Re: Starting a Second X server for games

That made it work great! thank you so very much!

karol

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Re: Starting a Second X server for games

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