I'm actually running a single X server with the two screens. (It's a laptop with an LCD panel and an external CRT screen). The reason I didn't want Xinerama is because when I tried it the window manager wouldn't handle it nicely. it would split dialog boxes in the middle, and maximize windows to both screens instead of just the screen they were in. About firefox, when an instance of firefox is run on the first screen (DISPLAY=:0.0), if I try to run another instance from the same screen, it opens a new window, but when I do that from the second screen (DISPLAY=:0.1) it opens the profile manager and asks me to choose a profile, and then fails to run my profile claiming it is already running. trying 'firefox -remote' command fails with the error 'Error: No running window found'
On 10/4/05, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haggai Eran wrote: > > >Is there any way to solve this without Xinerama? > > > > > If I understood you correctly, you are running a different X server for > each display. Is that right? > > I'm fiarly sure that there is a way to tell firefox to open a new window > for an existing instance via a command line. Try running this command > with a DISPLAY variable that applies to the second display. In any case, > simply moving a window between the displays should not be possible, just > like it's not possible to throw a window at a display that runs on a > different machine. Try seeing if xnest has what you want for that. > > In any case, is there a reason you do not want to use Xinerama? > > Shachar > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. > Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html > > -- Haggai Eran ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
