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sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 415

Alternative Xorg?

Hi all,

I am running a Dual Screen with Nvidia and a 8800gt card, both monitor are plug via VGA cable - Now I also have my TV plug via S-Video cable.

So ideally I would be able upon login to choose a different user in order to load a xorg.conf that set with one monitor and the TV (running a seperate X Screen) or adding a separate line in Grub to choose to boot a different xorg.conf

Other option would be to create a script to alternate xorg.conf and reload X then log normally but I am weary of that solution because it would be a `cp` command and it will become messy.

Any other option you might think or advice would be much appreciated,

Regards,

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Alternative Xorg?

startx -- -config blah.conf

^^ That's how you start X with a different config. "blah.conf" needs to be in /etc/X11/. Now you just need to figure out some script magic with either grub or your login manager.

sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 415

Re: Alternative Xorg?

Right,

but if I then log using gdm with a specific user that run that command - obviously x will restart and return to gdm? I mean it's not the end of the world, then I can run another script relaoding X with the normal config..

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Alternative Xorg?

Yeah, don't use a login manager then and hack something together with grub. No idea how though. Or, search the forums for CDM, it's a console based login manager. I haven't ever used it, so I have no idea what it's capable of, but it's something to try.