weird stuff going on in blender with dual moniters

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I just finished getting my second moniter to work using the Big Screen technique for ati x1600,
I wanted to do this for using blender, except, now, when I run blender, I cannot use any of the menus. None of them respond. I can move the default block around, but I can;t even bring up the tool kit.

Any ideas?

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the menus on the second monitor do not work, but do on the first. It’s an OpenGL driver issue, I am sure. I use nVidia. I end up using Blender on one screen and the console and redner window on the other, as well as widgets etc on second monitor.

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The menues do not work on either monitor, But nexiuz works on both and Im pretty sure it uses open gl.

Now, The menus dont work even if I detatch the moniter and switch my resolution back.

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Hello !
I sometimes use Blender on both screens and haven’t noticed anything wrong yet…
I use an ATI X1950 pro.
Does your card have 2 outputs or do you have to cheat somehow ?
What if you try with each monitor on seperate GC ?

What platforn are you on ?

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I am running ubuntu gusty. And the thing is, the menus on the program don’t work at all. Even if I detach my 2nd monitor, which is hooked to a vga port on my laptop, and set my resolution back to normal. I don’t know if some command that I put in my xorg.conf could possibly effect blender. I really have no idea what could be going on.

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I edited this line out of my xorg.conf


Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "yes" #Enable 3d support <= May Not Work

and it works fine

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Nice !
Well done.
I am thinking o switching to Ubuntu soon too myself and this trick might well be very usefull !