Dual monitor slideshow from preview or other software? 10.9

Hi,
does anyone have a suggestion how to run a photo slideshow on a mac with multiple screens attached that actually uses all the screens? If you select photos from the finder and then press the spacebar, or if you open the photos in preview, either gives the same result of showing a slideshow on one principal screen and the others remain as they were. I know there's the option in system preferences to mirror displays but I normally use the various displays as an extended desktop, it would be nice to have the option to use the various displays for a slideshow without having to fundamentally change the way the mac is controlling the screens. Apparently mavericks is more dual-screen friendly, but it seems to still only be half way there!!
Any suggestions gratefully received!

evilgold wrote:I've been using awesome3 on and off since its release. One of my favorite features is that it allows me to change the tag on one of my two screens without changing the other. So if i have a movie playing on tag 1 on my right screen, i can still switch between all 9 tags on my left screen and not loose sight of the movie. I havnt found any other window manager that creates this behavior by default, and i cant seem to figure out a way to make gnome or XFCE do it.
floating WM's like xfwm etc support a "pin" mode where you can pin a window , if you change workspaces, the pinned windows remain shown.

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I have a dual monitor configuration on my laptop (Sony Vaio VGN-SR21M), so that I can work with the laptop screen and an external lcd at the same time. It works amazingly well, every screen has its own resolution and I can drag windows from one screen to another (ATI drivers are wonderful in this aspect!). The only problem is that I can't switch to vc pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 or any other function key: the laptop screen freezes black, while the other shows "no input" box. Pressing Alt+F7 the X interface is restored correctly to both screens. If I start X without the external lcd the problem disappears, so I think it is a multimonitor issue. Here's my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
#InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
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InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
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Section "Module"
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Last edited by snack (2009-01-27 15:42:35)

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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "SynapticsTouchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AlwaysCore" "true" # send events to CorePointer
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
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Option "RightEdge" "5300" # x coord right
Option "TopEdge" "1700" # y coord top
Option "BottomEdge" "4200" # y coord bottom
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Option "FingerHigh" "30" # pressure above this level triggers touch
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Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "true" # enable horizontal scroll zone
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Option "VertScrollDelta" "15" # edge-to-edge scroll distance of the vertical scroll
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "15" # edge-to-edge scroll distance of the horizontal scroll
Option "MinSpeed" "0.15" # speed factor for low pointer movement
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75" # maximum speed factor for fast pointer movement
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0030" # acceleration factor for normal pointer movements
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "true" # vertical scroll anywhere with two fingers
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true" # horizontal scroll anywhere with two fingers
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Option "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection
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# Identifier "Keyboard0"
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# Option "XkbLayout" "it"
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
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EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
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Load "xtrap"
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Load "freetype"
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EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
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EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "PairModes" ""
Option "SwapScreens" "off"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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