<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Steve Romanow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slestak989@gmail.com">slestak989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 2/15/2010 1:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
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<pre>With the exception of the display, it's easy enough to accomplish by
just plugging in a second keyboard and mouse. That's what I have going
on in my home-theater setup at home.
As for the display, I have each display show up as a different screen.
(The TV is at :0.1, the desk is :0.0) If you enable xinerama, both
displays become part of :0.0, which has conveniences as far as
dragging windows around. (I don't use it that way, though, because it
breaks vdpau, which I need for hardware-accelerated h264 decoding.)
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I like Mikes thinking. If your laptop doesnt have the hardware, <a href="http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=usb+video+card&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=13793920276800844395&ei=tJV5S8HIDciAnQfw85HHCQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB8Q8wIwAA#ps-sellers" target="_blank">this</a>
may help.<br>
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<br></div></blockquote><div>Remember that Amazon has free</div><div>shipping and no tax, so the prices</div><div>can be misleading.</div><div><br></div><div>Interesting that the rating of the product</div><div>depends somewhat on the vendor....</div>
<div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>