Gnome Screensaver and Xinerama

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It will be interesting to see what type of content goes on here compared to SO, anyway ...

Anyone know how to get X11/Gnome screensaver to run across all 3 screens in an Xinerama environment as opposed to single savers per-screen.

Hello to everyone from SO who is on here too!

Aiden Bell

Posted 2009-07-16T20:51:18.720

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@Aiden, did you give the solution a try? Did it work? – pcapademic – 2010-01-05T06:23:38.280

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Try turning off clone in your xorg.conf file so it looks like this:

Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"

Of course, you must be running the monitors as an extended desktop (one big desktop) rather than 3 seperate monitors.

John T

Posted 2009-07-16T20:51:18.720

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As far as I know, there is no preference for this. Each screen simply gets its own screensaver. I kind of like it that way, though. Watching two electric sheep at once is more than twice as awesome.

Ryan C. Thompson

Posted 2009-07-16T20:51:18.720

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