Subject: Re: dual screensavers??? i don't want that...
To: Paul (NCC/CS). <pts@bom.gov.au>
From: Torsten Sadowski <moehl@akaflieg.extern.tu-berlin.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/15/2004 10:15:08
Are you running one vserver over both displays (xinerama) or are you
running two xservers. The simple test is to try moving a window from one
display to the other. If this is not possible you are running 2 xservers
and both have their own screensaver.

Torsten

P.S. If your xserver is XFree try this:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:

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> Hi,
> I have a dual screen setup with netbsd 1.6.2 which seems to
> work ok and I'm running plain old twm.
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> When xscreensaver kicks in it runs 2 screensavers, one on each
> monitor. I've seen linux run just the one screensaver over both
> the monitors in the past.
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> Does anyone know how to make it just run one saver over both
> screens in my case? I'd prefer it that way.
>
> Many thanks,
> Paul.
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