Re: The quest for a multimonitor screensaver
...for four monitors. But, it doesn't jump to fullscreen number 1
> monitor (leftmost) , although I can drag the window to the first
> monitor and pull on the sides and bottom to fill all the monitors. It
> works, so that is sort of a proof of concept. Anyone know how to
> achieve the effect desired via command line so I can use something
> like xautolock to initiate a full spread across multi-monitors and
> have it start in the leftmost monitor? That seems to be the Holy
> Grail for the lack of such a feature using Linux on the desktop.
> Windows has it, which makes me crazy. :) Ric
> ...for four monitors. But, it doesn't jump to fullscreen number 1
> monitor (leftmost) , although I can drag the window to the first
> monitor and pull on the sides and bottom to fill all the monitors.
> It works, so that is sort of a proof of concept. Anyone know how to
> achieve the effect desired via command line so I can use something
> like xautolock to initiate a full spread across multi-monitors and
> have it start in the leftmost monitor? That seems to be the Holy
> Grail for the lack of such a feature using Linux on the desktop.
> Windows has it, which makes me crazy. :) Ric
Where does the glschool appear? I would expect that to give a window
5440 pixels wide, 1024 pixels tall, with the left edge offset by one
pixel from the left side of the display area. There is no indication as
to where the top of the window would be.
A -geometry of $WIDTHx$HEIGHT+0+0 would give a window anchored in the
top left of the display area. Since you give a height of 1024 I'll
assume you are running screens of 1280x1024, in which case '-geometry
5120x1024+0+0' should give what I think you're looking for.
Cheers,
Tom
Cheers,
Tom
Huh, it starts way over to the right-most monitor. Since it is windowed,
I can drag it full lenght to the left and I have fishes swimming through
all of the monitors. Now to get that full screen and dis-engage when I
activate the mouse or keyboard.
Monitor 0 crt 0 on GPU 0 left most
Monitor 1 crt 1 on GPU 0 left center
Monitor 2 crt 0 on GPU 1 right center
Monitor 3 crt 1 on GPU 2 right most
I have 3 1280x1024 monitors and the right most is 1600x1024 <---the one
I use for movies!
Both video cards are identical nvidia GeForce GT-520's with 2 gigs of
vram each. They work in tandem like a charm, without being bridged. I
can play native linux games, like warzone2100 and Sauerbraten, with the
games going fullscreen and spanning all four monitors. This is the Holy
Grail! Everyone with fishies swimming between multi-monitors.
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