Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > 1) Is there a way to tell my NVidia card or xorg.conf to recognize
> > > the widescreen as my first screen?
> >
> > See the nvidia driver document:
> >
> > /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz
> >
> > Option "TwinViewOrientation" "string"
> > Controls the relationship between the two display
> > devices when using TwinView. Takes one of the following values:
> > "RightOf" "LeftOf" "Above" "Below" "Clone". Please see APPENDIX I
> > for details. Default: string is NULL.
>
> That doesn't effect it. It changes the position, but even when the
> monitors were swapped (as in left for right), it didn't change the
> display numbers.
>
> I don't mean first as in leftmost, I mean as in the display number,
> since it seems certain things always come up on monitor #1.

just out of curiousity, which monitor is the live one when the machine boots?

also, doesn't mouse position affect this? It certainly does in my dual-head rig. Whichever screen had the mouse gets the window except for some odd things (xfce config windows in particular like to show up in the left monitor no matter what, but that could be an artifact of xinerama, I suppose). The xscreensaver unlock dialog is always interesting...

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