TwinView and Games

**Greeface** · December 20th, 2005

Hmm, I tried it but when I restarted the second monitor didn't even turn on when Ubuntu started. What'd I do wrong?

**Greeface** · December 21st, 2005

Ah, yes! I figured it out. But now i have a new problem: when I open the game it has two cursors. One is for the game and one is my system cursor. Why is it doing that?

Thanks for the help

**Greeface** · December 26th, 2005

Meh, Nevermind, I can just switch the resolution from 2048x762 to 1024x768 when I want to play.

Thanks again for the help

**tkman** · December 13th, 2006

Greeface-

What did you do to fix your problem because I'm having the same issue. When I have a NULL option the second screen turns off right after I log in.

**boast** · October 29th, 2007

What do you do if the game goes full screen on the wrong monitor? It works for counter strike source, but not Enemy Territory.

**boast** · November 4th, 2007

bump.

**wishyjr** · November 4th, 2007

my advise to you guys is to play your games in a windowed mode where possible - i have two monitors and found that its the best way to play games with.

**dmn_clown** · November 4th, 2007

Originally Posted by wishyjr

my advise to you guys is to play your games in a windowed mode where possible - i have two monitors and found that its the best way to play games with.

That's only a good idea if your computer has the power to run the game in windowed mode.

http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/#twinviewconfig
http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/files/XF86Config-twinview

The relevant section of my xorg.conf

Code:

Section "Device"
<snip>
  Option "TwinView" "true"
  Option "MetaModes"  "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768, 1024x768; 800x600,800x600; 1280x1024, NULL; 1024x768, NULL; 800x600, NULL; 640x480, NULL; 400x300,NULL"
<snip>
EndSection