On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Michael Eager <eager(a)eagercon.com> wrote:
Michael Eager wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I have dual monitors using Nvidia Twinview. I
> have both displays working. The primary display has
> the panel, plasmoids, etc. It seems to work OK.
>
> The secondary display only shows wallpaper. Mouse
> clicks on the screen are ignored.
>
> I can start a program on the second display by running
> a command in the primary display: "DISPLAY=:0.1 konsole"
> but this screen does not take keyboard focus. Doing
> the same with konqueror, the mouse works, but again
> the keyboard is inactive. Neither of these windows has
> taskbars at the top, so they cannot be moved.
>
> Running GNOME, the dual display works OK, with both
> screens active.
>
One correction: I'm not running Twinview. When I
turn on Twinview in the nvidia-settings applet, I
get a single X window over both monitors. I want
independent X sessions on each monitor.
--
Michael Eager eager(a)eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
Have you seen this information? It helped me.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#xorg.conf