[Newlug] xorg four or more monitors

[John McMonagle]

On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 10:46:52 pm Tim Bolz wrote:
> I know with X you can run more than one monitor.  I have two running
> with Ubuntu 10.4 however I would like to run 3+ monitors.  I think you
> can just edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it should work.  I  have done
> this in the past.  Has anyone in the group used 3 or more monitors
> with X.   I have an old PCI paradise pipeline card and don't know what
> video driver I would use.  My main card is an nvidia.  Works good for
> two.  I have been thinking about getting a dual monitor nvidia PCI
> card.
> 
> Right now I have two separate screens.  I have had gnome on one and
> kde on the other in the past.
> 
> Thanks
> Tim

I don't think there is a particular limit.
The new way is with xrandr.
You can go from command line or gui.
I have found the gui's to be lacking important capabilities.
I have been using scripts for notebooks.
Also you can put the commands in xorg.conf


There are a few different ways to make one desktop over several monitors.
Sadly different drivers support different methods so you may have to watch 
what hardware you use.