emag37
December 5th, 2016, 04:51 PM
Hello,
I am using Lubuntu 16.04 and am trying to set up two screens as follows:
Display 1 (VGA output): Main display with keyboard and mouse
Display 2 (DVI output): Display with no input, just to display media
I understand that they've done away with static Xorg.conf files and everything is configured automatically, so I've been using XRandR commands to set the displays up appropriately on boot-up. Everything works well, except it treats the two screens as one giant display (echo $DISPLAY is always 0.0). So if I want to display an application on only one display or the other, I have to pass the appropriate --geometry flag to the application. Is there a way to force the X server to identify the screens as two seperate displays, such that I have $DISPLAY=0.0,0.1 or just 0,1? That way I could just set the application as fullscreen and not have to screw around with window geometry.
I believe it uses an Intel graphics chip.
Thanks!
I am using Lubuntu 16.04 and am trying to set up two screens as follows:
Display 1 (VGA output): Main display with keyboard and mouse
Display 2 (DVI output): Display with no input, just to display media
I understand that they've done away with static Xorg.conf files and everything is configured automatically, so I've been using XRandR commands to set the displays up appropriately on boot-up. Everything works well, except it treats the two screens as one giant display (echo $DISPLAY is always 0.0). So if I want to display an application on only one display or the other, I have to pass the appropriate --geometry flag to the application. Is there a way to force the X server to identify the screens as two seperate displays, such that I have $DISPLAY=0.0,0.1 or just 0,1? That way I could just set the application as fullscreen and not have to screw around with window geometry.
I believe it uses an Intel graphics chip.
Thanks!