GDM help (twinview/xinerama)

Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 5:12 am Post subject: GDM help (twinview/xinerama)

I'm trying to set up a custom GDM theme.

Created a nice one too.

Problem is i want it to be a dual screen setup 'cause thats what i got.

gdmthemetester shows that the dual screen theme works great. See it here (528.7KB)

but when GDM boots up i get this instead: (yes this is a slightly different version of the theme.)
See it here (540.2KB)

What is causing this? Twinview/xinrama takes care of the dual monitor thing for everything else in the system. and GDM was configured for xinerama support....

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JP · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 9:45 pm Post subject:

That looks like it would be a real cool thing ...... I hope someone comes by and gives you the answers you need, hopefully, this is something for the future for me, I'd like that. I once say a guy do that with large screen TVs for monitors using M$O$, and thought it would be great if it could be done with Linux.

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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 11:59 pm Post subject:

it can aned has.

i just don't know how.

googling finds plenty of examples of it in use but precious little in the way of how to.

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