Re: [SLUG] stretch screensaver across multiple monitors

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 19:08:29 EDT


On Sunday 30 April 2006 15:00, Sick Twist wrote:

> I've been playing with a Xinerama setup at work the past few days and I
> would like to configure xscreensaver to stretch a single screensaver across
> multiple monitors.

> I would be very grateful if anyone could share how to achieve this with
> xscreensaver or any other Linux screensaver.

Hmm, I've been running xinerama for years and never recall having had any
screen saver problems like you describe.

Now if you said background that could be a problem with having too small of an
image.

Here's my xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "Multihead layout"
        Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
        Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
        InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "Xinerama" "on"
        Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "dbe"
        Load "extmod"
        Load "fbdevhw"
        Load "glx"
        Load "record"
        Load "freetype"
        Load "type1"
        Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Keyboard0"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Mouse0"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Monitor0"
        VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName "Dell P1110"
        DisplaySize 400 300
        HorizSync 30.0 - 121.0
        VertRefresh 48.0 - 160.0
        Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Monitor1"
        VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName "ViewSonic P815"
        HorizSync 30.0 - 115.0
        VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
        Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Videocard0"
        Driver "nvidia"
        VendorName "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Videocard1"
        Driver "nvidia"
        VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
        BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200]"
        BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
        Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device "Videocard0"
        Monitor "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth 16
                Modes "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth 24
                Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device "Videocard1"
        Monitor "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth 24
                Modes "1600x1200"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

-- 

Steve Szmidt

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