[Thinlinc-technical] Muti-headed Linux terminal

Kees Epema keesepema at linuxmail.org
Mon Aug 5 16:51:54 CEST 2013


Hello all,

It is possible to set up a persistent dual monitor setup in
~/.config/openbox/autostart with xrandr:

## Enable dual monitor
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x1080
xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1280x1024 --right-of VGA-0

Kind regards,

Kees




2013/8/5 Karl Mikaelsson <derfian at cendio.se>

> Jens Langner <j.langner at hzdr.de> writes:
> > There, the same behavior had already been reported and it was
> > suggested to switch to a different window manager. This is, however,
> > no alternative for us. In this posting Pierre Ossman wrote that there
> > seems to be a multi-head extension to the window manager protocol
> > which openbox and other window managers don't support yet.
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> I believe Pierre was talking about the _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS
> extension, and you can verify whether openbox has it or not by running:
>
>   xprop -root | grep _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS
>
> There should be a line starting with "_NET_SUPPORTED(ATOM) = ..." with a
> lot of extensions, including _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS if your window
> manager supports it. I'll leave your other questions for someone with a
> bit more knowledge in this area. :/
>
> Regards,
> Karl
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