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Re: The DISPLAY variable.



On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 07:00:57AM -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> 
> Here Debian jessie is running on a machine with two screens 
> connected to one video card.  Therefore try these commands.

There are a bunch of ways of doing that. In particular, if you
used XINERAMA or NVidia or AMD's proprietary tools, you almost
certainly have one "screen", or DISPLAY, even though it is
stretched across two or more monitors.

> peter@dalton:~$ xrandr | grep Screen
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2432 x 960, maximum 4096 x 4096

says that is the case.


> xrandr recognizes only one screen?  Why?  Any ideas to have 
> the two screens recognized according to the documentation?

You would need to reconfigure. 

-dsr-


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