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Old 23rd April 2011, 06:36 AM
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Dual monitor, dual workspace?

I am attempting to use dual monitors in Fedora 14 using an AMD ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series graphics card (not that I think that has anything to do with anything, but who knows), and want it to where my second monitor is its own virtual workspace so that I can switch between my other workspaces on my original monitor without switching the workspace on the second monitor. This way, I can watch movies or what-not on my TV (2nd monitor) while working on my original monitor.

The only thing I found that was even close was setting the 2nd monitor up on it's on x server, which I don't want to do. Also, as it is now, I have my panel on my original monitor, but the windows do not see it when I have it aligned on the right (the windows don't adjust their size to account for the fact that it is there). Thanks for any help.

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I know a way I can do a work-around for this, but I would like to know if there is a "correct" way to do this. I know I can tell the movie player to show on all workspaces and have it on the 2nd monitor. But I would still have my issue with the panel. Anyway, any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Old 23rd April 2011, 12:35 PM
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Re: Dual monitor, dual workspace?

Howdy,

There are easy ways and hard ways...

The easy way is just to enable desktop effects (compiz) and plug a second monitor in. Another way is with xinerama and the third way is running a separate X server. For what you want to do, you probably need a second X server.
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