Dual Head Issue

James Strandboge jamie at strandboge.com
Sun Oct 15 20:28:24 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 12:40 -0600, drew at technteach.com wrote:
> Have Ubuntu running with dual heads, I can move the mouse from one
> monitor to the other, I can drag icons from one monitor to the other,
> but I can't drag a window from one to the other.  When the left half of
> the window goes out the left side of the right monitor it just disappears
> instead of appearing in the left monitor, and when the mouse reaches the
> left side of the monitor when it is dragging a window it just stops at
> the edge of the monitor.
> 
> It's probably some silly configuration somewhere that needs to be tweaked,
> but which one, where?

Sounds like xinerama is not enabled.  If it is not already in there, add
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

If you already have a 'ServerFlags' stanza, then just add the 'Option
"Xinerama" "on" to your existing 'ServerFlags' stanza.

Jamie
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