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

[Steve Holdoway]

Well, it's xinerama that's causing the functionality you're seeing. Try it and see (:

Steve

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:52:43 +1300
Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:

> On Saturday 06 October 2007 06:55:16 Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >     Option         "Xinerama" "0"
> > EndSection
> > to your xorg.conf?
> Actually, I did the almost-opposite :)
> 
> I added Option "Twinview" "1" to xorg.conf, which means that if you start X 
> with two monitors, the driver starts the xinerama extension and gnome figures 
> it all out. Previously, I think that gnome wasn't realising that the driver 
> had turned on xinerama at some point in the future when I was activating the 
> second monitor, and so didn't behave well. Now things work as well as they 
> did before, which is to say, well enough.
> 
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