[mythtv-users] Question about X11

[Stephen Brooks]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM, finlay <finlay at moeraki.com> wrote:
> Dirk Aust wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  > I'm planning to set up my PC as a 2 screen machine, one screen for normal work
>  > with KDE (:0.0) and the other for a mythfrontend (:0.1).
>  >
>  > The X setup works so far, but the KDE stuff is started on both screens, and I
>  > don't know how to prevent this.
>  >
>  > Does anybody has a similar setup running?
>  >
>  I run a mythbuntu 804 FE like this using an nvidia mb gpu. The window
>  manager is xcfe and it just starts studd on screen 0 and has screen 1
>  with a basic background. I think there is a setting in the window
>  manager to enable/disable extending the window manager over screen 1.
>  Maybe kde has a similar setting. I had to tweak the script that starts
>  the FE (mythbuntu specific I think) to work on screen 1 and there is the
>  issue of focus for the remote control when using the arrow buttons but
>  in general it works great.
>
>  John
>
>
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Why not run them as two different displays, with two different xservers?

e.g. X multi seat.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Multiseat_X