Fluxbox Dual Head - Usage query

lyallp · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:13 am Post subject: Fluxbox Dual Head - Usage query

I have managed to get Fluxbox working with my ATI 9600 XT video card using ATI drivers with a 19" LCD and a 17" CRT running different resolutions. If anyone wants it I can post my xorg.conf file

I discovered that Fluxbox has separate workspaces for each monitor, took a few minutes to figure that one out.

I only have a couple of, possibly silly, usage questions

Is it possible to drag a window from one monitor to the other? If not, how do I move a window from one monitor to the other?

The other question is...

On bootup, the kernel seems to prefer the old VGA output port of my video card for the 'console', how do I convince the kernel to use the 'Digital out' port, falling back to the VGA if there is no monitor plugged in?

Any assistance would be appreciated.
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Blood Fluke · Apprentice Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 224

lyallp · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the kernel response.

Anyone offer any enlightenment on the moving of windows between displays?

I have re-built fluxbox to have the xinerama USE flag, if that helps at all - which it apparently does not.
The fluxbox docs dont mention dual head at all either.
I will have a quick look in the X docs and report back any successes there...
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chrismortimore · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:15 pm Post subject:

Have you enabled xinerama in your xorg.conf? Using fluxbox here and can happily drag windows between monitors. It also hasn't made a workspace per monitor, it has made just one big workspace...

idunno246 · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 64

The problem is you set it up as dual X servers, so there is no way to drag between monitors with the current xorg.conf. You want to set it up in big desktop mode(which is example 2 in the aticonfig help)

lyallp

Ok, got dual head working with a single desktop. (required

Zaventh · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 16

That's part of xinerama. Did you "emerge -uD world --newuse" after setting the "xinemera" flag in make.conf? If you did, then you have to continue to setup your xorg.conf. My recommendation is to use the fglrxconfig tool to generate a new xorg.conf for you. If you are using the latest ati-drivers, you might not have this tool (it was replaced by aticonfig) so go and find an RPM of a slightly older version for your arch (will be called fglrx elsewhere), use rpm2tgz, untar it and run the fglrxconfig tool in there as root to generate a new xorg.conf. I just did this about two days ago to get xinerama working with KDE and it worked for me.

Wart · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 66

Im in a similar position.. but I dont really have a problem with fluxbox using seperate workspaces for each monitor.. Just dont know how to configure the second one.. i.e. set background, change number of workspaces, etc.. Any idea where the config for it is?
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ROBO_DONUT · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 144

The configuration for the second desktop is in your ~/.fluxbox/init file, the first desktop stuff starts with session.screen0 and the second starts with session.screen1.