Re: Dual Monitors
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:00:03PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:31:35PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> > I am currently using fluxbox with a dual video card/monitor setup and
> > it works great.
> >
> > Is there any way to give each of the monitors a different background?
>
> Depends, are you using Xinerama or true Dual Head? If you're running
> Xinerama, I think you're more or less stuck. With Xinerama the two
> physical displays become one logical display.
You could always try to make one big image containing the two
backgrounds you want side by side. If you like automatically changing
backrounds, imagemagick can probably make the big image from a script
(I didn't try, I don't have dual screens any more, and what's more, I
prefer plain color backgrounds)
Frank
> If you're running true
> Dual Head, simply set the DISPLAY variable to the second display before
> running the command to set the background image, such as:
>
> DISPLAY=:0.1 bsetbg ~/.blackbox/background-2.jpg
>
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> Jamin W. Collins
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