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3nd3r

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[UNSOLVED] multi monitor question

Is this possible?

I have a laptop. right now the lap screen is disabled and I have a 19' LCD hooked to it via a vga port.
Is it possible to have 2 seperate logins/wm's on each screen or have my GUI on one screen and have an actual terminal on the other?
Thanks

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sand_man

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Re: [UNSOLVED] multi monitor question

I don't see why not. Just start two different X sessions under two different logins.

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3nd3r

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Re: [UNSOLVED] multi monitor question

not sure how... can you point me to a wiki page?

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Re: [UNSOLVED] multi monitor question

Before I get flamed, I have been searching the wiki but cannot find anything about having multiple sessions/logins simotaniously on the same machine with multiple displays.
Can anyone help?

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signor_rossi

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Re: [UNSOLVED] multi monitor question

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64748

pierce.jason

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Re: [UNSOLVED] multi monitor question

If your laptop's video card can support using both outputs at the same time, you could define a secondary xorg.conf, with the other output's monitor listed. nvidia's configuration tool makes dual-monitor(for a single X-session) setup a breeze. I'm not sure if it will do basic xorg.conf configuration without nvidia drivers or not, but might give it a try, to atleast have it generate seperate blocks for each of your outputs.

Duologic

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Re: [UNSOLVED] multi monitor question

Run 'X -config /path/to/xorg1.conf' with the configuration of one monitor and 'X -config /path/to/xorg2.conf' with the configuration of the second monitor. Then it will run another login manager on each screen. Possibly you'd like to include a secondary keyboard and mouse in the xorg.conf's so you can use the secondary as if it is another pc.