Playing games on a System with Dual Monitors

[cybermatthieu]

Nice pic!

Do you actually work with all those monitors??

[Hitman_Forhire]

I have the second monitor set up as twinview, do I need to make it it's own x-server? Or is there another setting that will keep games from always wanting to span both?

Can I get a bump on this thread, I have a similar setup; running seperate X screens w/ Xinerama. Nexuiz always try to span both monitors.

I have manually added a 1280x1024 resolution but it still spans. In window mode it doesn't take up the entire monitor even with that resolution [crt].

Has anyone figured out a way to force a game/nexuiz to utilize only one monitor?

Thanks!

[brian70809]

I use Metamodes in my xorg.conf file to make it so certain resolutions called by a game move it into one monitor. It shuts the other monitor off..

Good luck!

here is what it says in my xorg.conf for Screen0

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: 1680x1050 +1280+0; CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: 640x480 +1280+0; CRT: NULL, DFP: 1680x1050 +0+0; CRT: NULL, DFP: 1440x900 +0+0; CRT: NULL, DFP: 800x600 +0+0; CRT: NULL, DFP: 1600x1024 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection