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How to fullscreen application across both monitors of dual head display?

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Mar 15, 20266038 views
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I have two Ubuntu 10.4 machines (and Ubuntu continues to hide more and more xorg.conf config such that I no longer know where to find it). One is a laptop running dual headed - DP1 is the internal screen, and VGA1 is an external monitor; both are running at 1600x900. The other machine is a desktop …

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xrandr --noprimary

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Fix for: How to fullscreen application across both monitors of dual head display?

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I did some digging. The modern version of the X11 magic I hypothesized is actually window manager magic, _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN. My VNC client is in fact using that request, and getting expanded to a single monitor. It appears that it should first…

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