Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:35:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: John Wynstra <jwynstra@nyc.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two monitors, two displays, one PC Message-ID: <20080612093310.U2278@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <485085F9.3010209@nyc.rr.com> References: <485085F9.3010209@nyc.rr.com>
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> In the last 4 months I bought a new monitor to replace the one that clunked > out in me. I am currently using it with an old PS2 type keyboard and mouse > attached to a creaky old desktop that will eventually be replaced. Likely I > will want to replace it with a laptop with wifi and a lot more memory and > hard drive so that I can take it with me. Can I still use the old monitor as > a second display? > > Can this be done? Is it done? What are the issues? > Xorg support 2 monitors. be default you will simply get two X displays (:0.0 and :0.1), first default, and use second by DISPLAY=:0.1 program or you may use Xinerama in X11 that creates one virtual display from two. if you have 2 monitors, two keyboards and two mice, you may use it as 2-use system with patched X11, i made a patch but a long time ago, it will not work ouf of the box with new Xorg
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