[NTLUG:Discuss] RedHat 8.0 and Dual Video

[David Simmons]

 John,

> - - xdm reads "/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers" to get a list of the X
> servers it
> will be starting.
> i would imagine that you should be able to add "+xinerama" to
> the end of
> this line, and then "startx" would fire up the X server with your
> desktop environment, but the desktop would be stretched across both
> monitors. the line would look like this:
>
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X +xinerama

This worked like a charm...(I'm writing this to you in the new window -
through VNC to my work laptop..cool).  But as was noted in another
message...this only works for KDE.  Does anyone have pointers to get it to
work with Gnome and/or BlueCurve??

Thanks again - Dav