On 11/23/05, Sudev Barar sbarar@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/24/05, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/23/05, Sudev Barar sbarar@gmail.com wrote:
Way out:
- Connect the projector
- Switch to console with Alt+Ctl+F1 (or F2...)
- Toggle to projector setting (or shared setting) As you are in text
the projector will beam the command line. 4. Start another X session by command startx -- :1
This works for me almost always subject to X resolution being within power of projector. By experience mostly 1024x768 works.
Thanks, I'll try that next time I'm near a projector.
Oops, there must be more to it. When I try 'startx -- :1 on tty2, I get a log of messages from X, none of them errors, but no X screen on tty8 (or ???). This is now a bit <OT>, so if you want to respond in a new thread, that's OK.
startx -- :1 Watch spaces before and after -- You can also try startx -- :2 You do not have to switch to tty8 because as soon as X starts the console switches automatically.
Thanks. I couldn't get your suggestion to work, but a little RTFM in the man pages came up with
'xinit ./second -- :1.0'. This does the job. ~/second is
#!/bin/sh xsetroot -solid black & ooffice sample.xsi
My system (at the moment I'm booted from Ubuntu) doesn't like the unadorned ':1'. I'll have to verify when I boot CentOS.
Now I just need to find a projector to try this out.
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan