Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:47 am Post subject: impress with dual displays
Good Day to all,
I just noticed recently that I cannot have impress direct a slideshow only to the external monitor (e.g. a projector) and have my notes display on my powerbook's display.
When dual monitors are setup on my PB, I set mirroring off, open the slideshow with OO and move OO's window to the projector and start the slideshow -- and it covers both screens.
iPhoto can run in slideshow mode on the second monitor only and have a spreadsheet on the main display no problem.
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject:
Using impress on dual displays is definitely a known problem and it isn't something that's immediately addressable in the X11 code. There are portions of the implementation that supposedly use xinerama, but I don't know how effective they are.
Whenever I'm using impress for presentations, I always use mirroring mode personally. I've never personally had the need for non-mirrored presos as usually i'm just reading slides off the internal display anyway. Note that you also need to put the X server in rooted display mode to get the menubar to vanish as well.
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