Any possible dual presentation screen solution (Impress!ve+Writer)?

Question

Hello.
I've made a presentation in LaTeX-Beamer and want to use Impress!ve to project it to the projector or the Smart Board (some kind of projector) via an VGA cable, how can I have a dual screen so I can view some notes from OpenOffice Writer on my laptop screen while I talk? I'm using Awesome WM at the moment, so I was wondering if there is some simple solution to this.
I was thinking of maybe using Xephyr?
Greets.
Edit: some errors where corrected
Last edited by rusma (2011-05-07 00:33:15)

Answer 1

aquotte wrote:
I have a netbook with intel graphics and xrandr works perfectly. Just run
xrandr -q
and it will show you the video output devices connected to the laptop along with their supported resolutions. The panel will be LVDS or LVDS1 and the external display will be VGA or VGA1.
To activate the external display, choose one of the available resolutions and run (using the correct names and resolution)
xrandr --output VGA --mode 800x600 --right-of LVDS
The external display should now be running to the right of the panel (moving the mouse past the right border of the panel takes the cursor to the external display and moving it past the left border of the external display takes it to the panel). To turn the external display off, run
xrandr --output VGA --off
The wiki and man xrandr have more detailed information.
Fabio Aquotte
Hello
I like this one. I tried to do the
xrandr --output VGA --mode 800x600 --right-of LVDS
but got this error:
xrandr: cannot find output "LVDS"
and this is the output from xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 190mm
1440x900 60.0*+
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
VGA1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
848x480 60.0
640x480 59.9
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
I could not understand from what you wrote if the screen will appear as a little window like the one you make from Xephyr.