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Rob Beard wrote: > So, I wondered, is there anyone out there who's managed to get two > independent X screens running. Ideally I'd like to be able to have two > X screens running two different window managers (maybe Gnome/Metacity > and possibly a lightwight one such as FWM) and have them behave as if > they're completely independent using a pair of USB keyboards and mice. > I'd ideally like to stick with the ATI card (I have two of these cards > installed at the moment which isn't really what I want but I can live > with it if need be) but I'd be willing to move over to an NVidia card if > I had to, although I chose ATI on the basis that it can use an Open > Source driver (I really don't like running the FGLRX driver as Compiz > doesn't work and playing video in a window is very slow). I've tried doing the dual keyboard/mouse thing with my laptop and I can tell you now that's it's currently impossible to do it with a dual output card- you need 2 independent cards because when you have a dual-output card both screens are accessed with the same resources, so you can't have one X server running on one screen and one on the other. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html