Dual monitor setup — Porteus 3.0 RazorQt -- [SOLVED]
Posted: 23 May 2014, 15:01
Hello, I'm using Porteus 3.0 RazorQt desktop and am running it persistent from a USB key at present with "opensource drivers" (presume this means 'noveau') on a 2.4GHz P4 system with dual monitors via an Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS.
I built the 'zarfy-0.1.0' gui monitor app from slackbuilds.org and converted it with USM to a porteus module.
At present I've got dual left/right function but it's quirky.
http://i.imgur.com/aOAkmhm.png
The left monitor (VGA-2) displays as a blank openbox desktop, while the right (DVI-1) has inherited the razor-qt gui. The clock and other wdgets that were activated before going to dual mode are apparently still running, but hidden by the openbox desktop. One can see a touch of the edge of the notepad widget showing a gray vertical line at the border between the two screens.
Tips for trouble-shooting this setup will of course be appreciated, but I'm also wondering about perhaps using another app.
I looked for 'arandr' but didn't find a slackbuild script or other slack-verse package for it.
'krandrtray' is mentioned a few times in these forums regarding KDE versions of previous Porteus releases. I'm wondering if it, being Qt based, might perform better. But again, I'm having difficulty finding a package to try.
Ultimately, I'd like to end up with the left screen (VGA-2) as primary with the razor-qt panel/toolbar and the right one (DVI-1) as extended razr-qt desktop (perhaps with an additional panel). I'm not expecting razor to offer full independent multi-screen configuration like E17, but I'm guessing some improvement might be made to what I have now.
I'm a Porteus newbie and fairly new to the slack-verse in general. (I installed Vector Linux 7.0 Light to an old laptop a couple weeks ago; mostly 'Deb/untu' and Puppy experience before that).
I built the 'zarfy-0.1.0' gui monitor app from slackbuilds.org and converted it with USM to a porteus module.
At present I've got dual left/right function but it's quirky.
http://i.imgur.com/aOAkmhm.png
The left monitor (VGA-2) displays as a blank openbox desktop, while the right (DVI-1) has inherited the razor-qt gui. The clock and other wdgets that were activated before going to dual mode are apparently still running, but hidden by the openbox desktop. One can see a touch of the edge of the notepad widget showing a gray vertical line at the border between the two screens.
Tips for trouble-shooting this setup will of course be appreciated, but I'm also wondering about perhaps using another app.
I looked for 'arandr' but didn't find a slackbuild script or other slack-verse package for it.
'krandrtray' is mentioned a few times in these forums regarding KDE versions of previous Porteus releases. I'm wondering if it, being Qt based, might perform better. But again, I'm having difficulty finding a package to try.
Ultimately, I'd like to end up with the left screen (VGA-2) as primary with the razor-qt panel/toolbar and the right one (DVI-1) as extended razr-qt desktop (perhaps with an additional panel). I'm not expecting razor to offer full independent multi-screen configuration like E17, but I'm guessing some improvement might be made to what I have now.
I'm a Porteus newbie and fairly new to the slack-verse in general. (I installed Vector Linux 7.0 Light to an old laptop a couple weeks ago; mostly 'Deb/untu' and Puppy experience before that).