Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:55:17PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote:
>
> > Matt Price wrote:
> >
> > >On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
>
> > >>Matt Price wrote:
>
> > >>Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use the projector as a
> > >>second head, and configure X as a dual-head setup.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >so, question: Is it actually possible to run a different X session on
> > >the projector?
> > >
> >
> > Having never had a laptop I could experiment much with, I don't know. I
> > came across something last week that led me to believe that a laptop
> > essentially has a "second video card" which it uses for the external
> > monitor, but I briefly experimented with an older laptop that led me to
> > believe that was not the case at least with this laptop.
>
> Most newer laptops which use ATI radeon or nvidia chipsets have this
> dual head capability.
>
> X does not currently seem flexible enough to switch between single head
> and dual head on the fly though, so you either have to have dual head
> running all the time, or restart X with a different XF86Config file when
> you want to do this nifty sort of thing.
>
> If someone came up with a way to make the second head map directly to a
> virtual desktop, that would be massively sweet...
yeah, this is what I want. how would one start? Where's brandon when
we need him???
m
>
> -Mark
>
>
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