multihead (multi monitor) - different screens ($DISPLAY)
Posted: 15. Dec 2016, 01:44
The question has already been asked before, (in this forum), however never been answered, and maybe there has been updates.
Is (and if so, please specify how) it possible to define a Linux guest VM, having two (and even three or four) (virtual) monitors, however each one of them must have individual $DISPLAY values (screen :0.0 , :1.0 , a.s.o).
From my days of configuring linux, I remember this would be the *opposite* of activating Xinerama.
However if - in the ServerLayout section of xorg.conf (/etc/X11), I specify, and (re)start X11, The multiple monitors are still "attached to make a big single X11-display".
Xorg reports:
xwininfo -root and xrandr -q
both still reports a large Screen 0.
running window manager fvwm.2.5.24
running VirtualBox 5.1.10,
and installed VBoxClient (same version).
I'm attempting to virtualise a legacy (Ubuntu 8.04 system with 4 monitors, and the specified features are required (windows may not be exchangable between monitors (screen)), and full width of an X11/OpenMotif application should come to fill a single monitor (not multiple neighbouring monitors).
Already smitten with the features of VB of virtual monitor, fixed resolution (in a window), and "zooming (Scale mode) OUT for the monitor" (although it took me a while to find this feature, would have expected it to be together with the ZOOM IN feature.
Is (and if so, please specify how) it possible to define a Linux guest VM, having two (and even three or four) (virtual) monitors, however each one of them must have individual $DISPLAY values (screen :0.0 , :1.0 , a.s.o).
From my days of configuring linux, I remember this would be the *opposite* of activating Xinerama.
However if - in the ServerLayout section of xorg.conf (/etc/X11), I specify
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Option "Xinerama" "off"Xorg reports:
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(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Dec 15 00:30:11 2016
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Layout[all]"
(**) |-->Screen "VGA-0" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor[0]"
(**) | |-->Device "Device[0]"
(**) |-->Screen "VGA-1" (1)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor[1]"
(**) | |-->Device "Device[1]"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse[1]"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse[2]"
(**) Option "Xinerama" "off"
(**) Option "AIGLX" "off"
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
both still reports a large Screen 0.
running window manager fvwm.2.5.24
running VirtualBox 5.1.10,
and installed VBoxClient (same version).
I'm attempting to virtualise a legacy (Ubuntu 8.04 system with 4 monitors, and the specified features are required (windows may not be exchangable between monitors (screen)), and full width of an X11/OpenMotif application should come to fill a single monitor (not multiple neighbouring monitors).
Already smitten with the features of VB of virtual monitor, fixed resolution (in a window), and "zooming (Scale mode) OUT for the monitor" (although it took me a while to find this feature, would have expected it to be together with the ZOOM IN feature.