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Subject: Re: Matrox G400 dual-head & XFree86 (was Re: XFree86 -4.01a) From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Yep, unstable in my experience too. Maybe XFree86 4.0.2 will have a > stable driver. Until then, I've dropped back to one monitor :( sad but true > > BTW, what is the best window manager for xinerama? sawfish certainly > > didn't like it. I switched to enlightenment, but it seemed like gnome was > > still trying to load sawfish as well. I tried KDE, but didn't really like > > it. > > If you switch the window manager in GNOME's control center, there > shouldn't be any problem. I did this > When I had two video cards installed (and had xinerama) I was really happy > with sawfish. Maximizing would only fill one screen, and windows weren't > placed such that they spanned monitors. What problems did you have? well, I had the default 7.0 gnome/sawfish before I went dual headed. Once I got xinerama working, gnome hung a bit on startup, and I got sawfish errors. So since it looked like it couldn't handle xinerama, I used the control center to switch to enlightenment. However, the black and white startup picture (with the one guy wearing a red hat) always said it was using sawfish (even though enlightement had started already. I thought that might have contributed to the instability, but since I had instability without xinerama (back to sawfish and single head) I guessed it didn't. Pity, I really wanted to go dual head. Did you ever get my message about my linux pptp client problems? I usually access this vpn via my laptop using pptp masquerading, but my laptop is broken and I'd really like to use the linux client anyway. I had tried your scripts, but could never get it to work. ===