From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 8:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sun5.cww.telecomitalia.it (proxy03.csi.telecomitalia.it [212.210.43.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654B337B416 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 08:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sun5.cww.telecomitalia.it (helo=netsiel.it) by sun5.cww.telecomitalia.it with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 168OhM-0002LO-00; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:33:36 +0100 Message-ID: <3C026ED7.2E48DFF8@netsiel.it> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:33:27 +0100 From: Fabrizio Fresco X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Erlin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X and multiple monitors References: <20011126155309.44804.qmail@web11704.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim Erlin wrote: > > I'd like to be able to plug my laptop into an external > monitor and either extend my existing workspace onto > that monitor or set up a second workspace there. I'm > not sure where to start looking for info about this. > I'm using XFree86 4 and Windowmaker. Is this sort of > thing a function of X or the window manager? Anyone > know of a good how-to, or other resources? This is a XFree thing, see http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html bye To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message