<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I doubt many people use this, but I have an<br>interest on running multiple front end instances
<br>on a single machine.<br><br>Is there an easy way to do this?</blockquote><div><br>
I recently set up a system with both a TV and a monitor connected to
one GeForce4 MX4... board. I wanted different content on the two
displays: MythTV on the TV and normal PC desktop on the monitor. I
tried running MythTV frontend on both and that worked. Of course only
one of them would output sound.<br>
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I tried several options:<br>
1: A xorg.conf with twinview options. One X session that would cover both screens.<br>
2: A xorg.conf with two ScreenLayouts and then starting X on each of them.<br>
3: A xorg.conf with one ScreenLayout but two screens. Starting X would create menu bars etc on both screens.<br>
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I managed to make 1 work, but I find an easy way to control where each
application would start, so MythFrontend started on the monitor and
Firefox on the TV. Not exactly what I wanted, especially as I could not
drag Mythfrontend to the TV<br>
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I did not manage to make 2 work.<br>
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I managed to make 3 work. Both displays are running as the same user,
as I only start X once, but for my purpose that does not matter. As
mentioned I could start two instances of MythFrontend and watch
different recordings on them. I guess I could control the first via a
LIRC device and the second via the keyboard, but I only have a keyboard
on that PC. I do not know if sound to two different outputs can be
handled.<br>
<br>
Niels Dybdahl<br>
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