Anyone have dual screens?

[yelsir]

So I've got my ATI drivers configured...finally.

I've got dual screens & I'm using xinerama within the ati control center. It is treating my desktop space as one large desktop between both monitors. This is fine, but windows first appear in the middle & full screen modes spread between both monitors.

So any videos I play are centered in the middle of the 2 monitors. Wallpapers act the same.

How can I configure this so that both monitors are their own space of the whole?

[puttick]

Re: Anyone have dual screens?

Ok, I can't answer all your questions (asked and not asked), but here goes:

yes, I have dual screens (analogue 1440x900 and 1280x1024)

no, not using a proprietary driver (fglrx/nvidia), using radeon on ATI X1650 Pro (cheap dual head card)

yes, they work automatically

yes, I have desktop effects working

yes, I have 3D, decent enough to spin that 3D desktop cube (irregular octahedron in my case, 6 desktops )

yes, I have independent full screen apps, and when I pull them from one screen to the other they resize as needed

OTOH, no idea how you make it happen with the proprietary drivers - from memory something about enabling Xinerama support. I edited xorg.conf after using xrandr to find out what the monitors were called.

Now, if I can just figure out what the Display bit in System Settings is for, I'd be content...

[Guest]

Re: Anyone have dual screens?

Dual screen works without the need of proprietary drivers and the panel. But with them, you could use the same method : xrandr.

It is simple and works great, see my dual-screen kde automation if you want.