Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?

[Nicolas <ripley@8d.com>]

On Thursday 25 March 2004 22:37, arief# wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> I don't know if this idea is doable.
> Or it might even sounds crazy.
>
> Is it possible to use different X-Window client on a laptop VGA-port?
> You know the one that used for digital projector presentation input.
>
> I mean, can I make it viewing different view than the ones coming up on
> my LCD?
>
> No?
> I guess so.

Sure you can, just like a dualhead.  I use this configuration at work.  One 
server on my laptop LCD and another one on an external CRT.  Both have the 
same window manager and one mouse, one keyboard, but with different 
resolution/refreshrate.

All you need to do is declare two screens and make your server something like 
that :
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "DualJob"
    Screen      "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection


>
> Best Regards,
> -arief

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