So after a 6 month hiatus away from the dual head desktop setup I’ve decided to venture that way again. Nvidia has excellent linux driver support (what’s up ATI?) and using their binary X windows driver it’s really quite simple to implement dual head support. I simply added the following lines to my screen config in \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf file and restarted the X server.<\/p>\n
With twinview enabled X is unaware that there are two display devices and two monitors, this is all done by the binary Nvidia driver. So far it’s working great, the xinerama extensions in the Nvidia driver are allowing most apps to start in one window even though the virtual screen is 2560 (1280 + 1280) pixels wide. There’s nothing more annoying than having applications constantly centered in between both monitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So after a 6 month hiatus away from the dual head desktop setup I’ve decided to venture that way again. Nvidia has excellent linux driver support (what’s up ATI?) and using their binary X windows driver it’s really quite simple to implement dual head support. I simply added the following lines to my screen config … <\/p>\nSection \"Screen\"
\n Identifier \"Default Screen\"
\n Device \"NVIDIA0\"
\n Monitor \"BENQ P992\"
\n DefaultDepth 24
\n Option \"TwinView \" \"on\"
\n Option \"TwinViewOrientation\" \"RightOf\"
\n Option \"MetaModes\" \"1280x1024,1280x1024;1024x768,1024x768;1280x1024,NULL\"
\n Option \"SecondMonitorHorizSync\" \"30 - 96.0\"
\n Option \"SecondMonitorVertRefresh\" \"50 - 120\"
\n SubSection \"Display\"
\n Depth 24
\n Modes \"1280x1024\" \"1024x768\"
\n EndSubSection
\nEndSection
\n <\/code><\/p>\n