Can Xinerama be completely disabled in Gutsy?

[Dan Munckton]

Thanks for your reply Todd. However I don't need multi-monitor mode I
only have 1 screen. What I need to do is completely disable it as even
though I only have 1 screen Xinerama still seems to be present and
functioning.

>         
>         So I have the following questions:
>         
>         1) What is the major difference between the way Xinerama is
>         included in
>         Gutsy in comparison with Feisty?
>  
> I had strange mouse behaviour in gusty with the same config file that
> I had used fine in feisty.
>  
>         
>         2) Is it going to be possible to disable Xinerama from within
>         xorg.conf?
>  
> Yeah. The way I got it to work was with an aticonfing command,
> specifically:
>  
>   sudo aticonfig --dtop=horizontal,reverse
>  
> This command sets up what is called a big desktop, not xinerama, which
> basically uses both displays as one big one.
>  
> If you are using an nvidia card, try configure with the
> nvidia-settings and those tools.
>  
>  
>         
>         3) If I disable Xinerama what am I likely to break (e.g.
>         DisplayConfigGTK)?
>         
>         4) Is there another way to achieve this?
>         
>         I am quite happy plugging away at this on my own but if anyone
>         with more
>         Ubuntu/Xorg knowledge can give me some insight at this stage
>         it would be
>         much appreciated.
>  
> There are some good tutorials on this stuff:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174
>  
>  
> If you run into specific problems, you shoud post bugs on them. Be
> sure to include your config files, monitor specs, and graphic card
> information and other relevant inforation
>  
> Best Regards,
> Todd
>  
>         
>         Cheers
>         
>         Dan
>         
>         
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