Xinerama

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Today I finally set up Xinerama for the first time. I am now running with XFree86 with 2560x1024 taking advantage of my Matrox G550 Dual Head. I am still looking for double-sized Wallpapers especially one with a daemon. I am still experimenting with the position of the KDE kicker. At the moment it is in the middle covering both monitors. But it is not possible to configure absolute positions for the kicker applets, so i have to adjust the positions depending on the number of open windows.
Here is my XF86Config:
Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "Xinerama"
EndSection
 
Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen	    1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util"
	FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont"
	FontPath	"/usr/local/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "speedo"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "XVideo"
        Load  "Xv"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option     "XkbModel"      "pc105"
	Option     "XkbLayout"     "de(euro)"
	Option     "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "SAM"
	ModelName    "1f13"
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor1"
	VendorName   "SAM"
	ModelName    "1f13"
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "mga"
	VendorName  "Matrox Graphics, Inc."
	BoardName   "MGA G550 AGP"
	Option "AGPMode" "1"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card1"
	Driver      "mga"
	VendorName  "Matrox Graphics, Inc."
	BoardName   "MGA G550 AGP"
	Option "AGPMode" "1"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	Screen 1
EndSection



Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"	
 	DefaultColorDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes	"1280x1024"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen1"
	Device     "Card1"
	Monitor    "Monitor1"	
 	DefaultColorDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes	"1280x1024"
	EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "DRI"
	Mode 0666
EndSection

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3 Comments

Tnx for the info dude :)
i was exactly searching for this.

You could use WindowMaker instead of KDE. Then you wouldn't have to worry about the KDE kicker :-P

Yes, this would improve also the amount of memory used. 256M is not enough for a Xinerama-KDE-Desktop + Openoffice + Firefox, but unfortunately i like KDE.
You can move kicker windowmakerlike to the left or right, but i prefer to have it MacOS-like at the bottom.
Unfortunately you can't have two kickers, one for each screen.

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