[mythtv-users] Woah there, little doggie ...

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Tue Jun 10 17:14:50 EDT 2003


Preston A. Elder wrote:
> I run MythTV on a multi-headed system.
> 
> Is there a way to reign in how many monitors it tries to spread itself
> over (ie. force the resolution it tries to use)?
> 
> By default, it spreads itself over all 3 monitors, and looks
> horrendous.  Even apart from just scaling back the resolution, it would
> be very cool to be able to, say, tell it to use the last monitor of the
> 3, (or, since my vid. res. is 3840x1024, set the resolution to
> 1280x1024, and to start position to 2560, ie. display on the 3rd
> monitor).
> 
> Even if this is not possible, stopping it from spreading across all 3
> monitors would be a Good Thing (tm).

There is a setting for "Xinerama screen:" which is now under
Setup->Appearance. I know this used to work but I don't have
a multi-head setup to test this. Try setting this and see if
it works for you.

--  bjm




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