[nzlug] Issue with GDM, Twinview, and Ubuntu Gutsy

[Steve Holdoway]

Try adding 

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection


to your xorg.conf?

Steve.

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:24:22 +1300
Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:

> Hopefully someone out there knows more about GDM than I do.
> 
> I often use my laptop with two monitors, using nvidia's 'twinview'. However, 
> gnome has a bug where if you go from one monitor to two, it doesn't realise 
> there's two, and stretches panels etc. across them both. In feisty, I found 
> that if I set up dual monitor, logged out, and logged in, then gnome saw it 
> as two monitors, and things were laid out fine from then until I next 
> restarted the X server.
> 
> However, with gutsy, whenever you log out X gets restarted, and so this 
> doesn't work. This makes dual monitor with twinview very hard to work with.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can stop GDM (or whatever it is doing this) restarting 
> X? I've set AlwaysRestartServer=false in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, but it makes no 
> difference.
> 
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