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#1 2010-03-23 19:14:39

Dethredic
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Second Monitor with nVidia and Openbox

I am going to be picking up a second monitor this afternoon, and I am wondering how easy it will be to set up. Can I just run the nVidia xorg configure command and will that do most of it for me? I also noticed there are different methods of using 2 monitors. Is twinview the best or should I look at something else?

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#2 2010-03-24 09:06:19

IncredibleLaser
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Re: Second Monitor with nVidia and Openbox

I think twinview is independent of your WM. I use twinview with KDE but it also worked with i3. I recommend twinview for dual monitor use. It can be setup with nvidia-settings.

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#3 2010-03-24 09:48:30

SiC
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From: Liverpool, England
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Re: Second Monitor with nVidia and Openbox

Twinview works fine, although I find it falls down when I try to run a fullscreen game in Wine.  You can configure the second monitor in the nvidia settings gui, although to save them to your xorg.conf you need to run it as root.

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#4 2010-03-24 12:45:21

JuseBox
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Re: Second Monitor with nVidia and Openbox

GUI works fine and i always run nvidia-settings as root.

su -c 'nvidia-settings'

or just apply a alias

alias nvidia-settings='su -c 'nvidia-settings''

Good Luck!

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#5 2010-03-24 21:40:47

Dethredic
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Re: Second Monitor with nVidia and Openbox

alright thanks guys. Is there a way to use feh to only set 1 image per screen or do I need to edit my own picture?

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#6 2010-03-25 12:23:13

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Re: Second Monitor with nVidia and Openbox

The easiest way to setup your second monitor is lxrandr.

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#7 2010-03-25 12:29:47

pickboy87
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Re: Second Monitor with nVidia and Openbox

I'm not sure with feh, but nitrogen works well for 2 monitors.

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