Re: multi-head GEMPAK and/or McIDAS workstation under GNOME

• To: Robert Mullenax
• Subject: Re: multi-head GEMPAK and/or McIDAS workstation under GNOME
• From: Art Wildman [mailto:Art.Wildman@xxxxxxxx]
• Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:08:12 -0600

That was one of the things we tried.  Unfortunately in Red Hat 9 (GNOME 2.2)
there is already a gnome-session running on the other screens (unlike
older versions of GNOME).  The problem is, it just doesn't work right.
If you open an app on screen 1 or 2 and minimize it, then it just
disappears.
If you enable Xinerama and mimimize on 1 or 2, it mimimizes to the toolbar
on screen 0.  The big problem is that with the NV drivers at least, Xinerama
makes GARP?NMAP2 display VERY slow.

I just ended up switching to FVWM2 for my workstation.   Not as fancy, but
it works.

Thanks to everyone for their assistance.

Robert

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Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:01 AM
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What to do with 2 monitors and your WES (or any linux) Workstation
http://strc.comet.ucar.edu/wes/documents/dual_head.htm

Try this little wrapper script...

#! /bin/bash
# start_gnome_right_screen.sh
export DISPLAY=:0.1
/usr/bin/gnome-session

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Art Wildman/ITO - mailto: art.wildman@xxxxxxxx
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Robert Mullenax wrote:
> We normally use KDE on our triple-head Red Hat 9 Linux systems with
> great success.  We get full Desktops on each head by default.  However,
> I want to transition one box over to GNOME as we need to run
> a McIDAS session on it and thw McIDAS image window doesn't
> work under KDE.
> 
> However, when I start GNOME, all it shows on the 2nd and 3rd screens
> is a blue background.  What's worse is that if you minimize any app
> on these two windows the app just disappears.  It is still running in the
> background. nut there is no way to restore it.   GNOME is fully
> patches.
> 
> This is likely something that needs to be taken off line so as to
> not offend, but if anyone has experience with GNOME and multi-heads
> I would appreciate some advice.  Web searches have proven fruitless.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert Mullenax
> 
> 
> Robert Mullenax
> Weather Systems Administrator
> Universal Weather and Aviation
> 
> 

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