[mythtv-users] Can I change the default screen?

[DaveD]

Video overlay is always on screen 0.  That's the problem, switching them 
makes my video playback great on my small monitor with login prompts and 
all.  But I'd really rather have the login prompts on the monitor with 
the video overlay on the TV.  That's the whole point.  Login screen and 
desktop 1 always appear on screen 0, no matter which monitor that shows 
up on.  I have no problem configuring xorg.conf to move screen 0 back 
and forth between the TV and monitor.  How can I change KDE's behavior 
to get login (and other prompts) and desktop 1 on screen 1 and desktop 2 
on screen 0?

DaveD

Chris Ribe wrote:
>
>
> On 7/18/07, *DaveD* <mythtv at guiplot.com <mailto:mythtv at guiplot.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     I have a dual head Nvidia 5200 with DVI driving my 17" monitor and
>     analog (15-pin) driving my 1080p LCD TV (actually a 37" monitor with
>     external tuner).  With the dual head, single card, I can only have
>     one
>     display with two screens and only one of the screens gets the video
>     overlay, screen 0.  I would like that to be the TV so I can adjust
>     picture settings (brightness, contrast, etc) and take some of the load
>     off of the CPU during video playback.  I am running KDE with two
>     separate desktops, same user.  I thought I could do multiseat, but
>     found
>     that only works with dual DISPLAYs, not just dual SCREENs.  In other
>     words, multiseat (different user on each display) requires dual video
>     cards, which I can not accommodate (box is full!).
>
>     Sending screen 0 (DISPLAY :0.0) to the TV poses some problems when  my
>     wife is watching the TV and I am working on the computer using the
>     monitor on screen 1 (DISPLAY : 0.1).  If I try to reboot, the logout
>     prompt is displayed on the TV, which I don't see because the TV
>     input is
>     set to Tuner instead of PC.  If I put in a CDROM, the "What do you
>     want
>     to do" prompt, again, is sent to screen 0.  I have to wait for a
>     commercial (remember commercials?) to switch the TV input to PC so
>     I can
>     see the prompt and respond.  There are LOTs of cases where things are
>     sent to screen 0 by default.
>
>     What I would like to do is change my default display to be on
>     screen 1.
>     I would like the login prompt to be displayed on display :0.1 and my
>     second desktop to be on :0.0.  Anyone heard of this?  Is it possible?
>     Is there a better list to post this question to (I tried KDE forum but
>     no luck)?
>
>
> Have you tried going through xorg.conf and just changing all of the 
> relevant 0s to 1s and vice versa?
>
> Actually, the first thing i would try would be to change these lines 
> in the Server Layout section:
>
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
>
>
> to
>
>     Screen      1  "Screen0" 0 0
>     Screen      0  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
>
>
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