>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:
Al> Keith writes:
>> The XINERAMA docs say that it needs config files written to
>> re-configure the video card.
You may just need to add a command to load the extension module. It's
not necessarily hard.
Al> Tell me that you're not trying to run more than one desktop
Al> configuration by using Xinerama? Methinks you have the wrong
Al> end of the stick, my friend ;))
Right -- Xinerama turns several screens into one display, all (for
example) controlled by the same window manager.
Al> As for trying different wms - easy. Find out what the program
Al> is called (i.e. enlightenment). Load up X. Open a shell. Type
Al> 'killall enlightenment'. Then, the screen will go all
Al> odd. You may need the mouse pointer over the shell window to
Al> be able to type into it. To run (for example, sawmill) type
Al> 'sawmill &'. Presto.
`killall enlightenment; sawmill &' is possibly a little safer, because
it loads up the new window manager without user intervention.
But most environments provide a menu to change WMs. Try invoking your
WM's popup menu and look for a submenu item called Window Managers or
possibly Session or something like that.
Another possiblity is to escape to an unused VT with (eg) Ctrl-Alt-F2,
and then run something like `startx sawmill -- vt02 :1' from the
command line. (Note the vt## matches the Ctrl-Alt-F#, this tells X
which VT you want to use. And the :1 tells X that this is the second
instance of the server on this machine. The default is :0 -- but you
already guessed that. ;)
Note that you can even send clients to one display from the other (eg,
to start up an xterm from display :0 and display it on :1, use `xterm
-display :1').
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