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4. Set the CRT modes to be used on each monitor:
5. Choose whether or not to enable hints through the Xinerama extension.
If hints are enabled, clients can get information about the monitors from the X
server, which will in most cases result in more intelligent operation of the window
managers??”for example, maximized windows will fill one monitor instead
of both, and dialogs will be centered in one monitor instead of being centered in
the virtual screen (which may cause them to span monitors, or??”in rare cases??”
end up in an inaccessible area). You should not enable both this option and the
X server??™s normal Xinerama handling at the same time.
The second monitor does not require a Monitor section in the configuration
file.
You can find specific configuration information for the radeon driver from man radeon,
and for the NVIDIA closed-source driver from /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/
README.txt.
4.8 Parallel Pointing Devices
It??™s often convenient to have multiple pointing devices that work in parallel??”such as
a TouchPad and a mouse. This gives the user the flexibility to use whichever device is
NVIDIA Option "MetaModes" "modes", where modes are pairs of values separated by
commas.
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