Simon Lees wrote: Thanks for the suggestions!
As a hacky solution you could launch another x session for the local monitor keyboard and mouse then run a VNC client on it that connects to the existing session, then you'd have the same display with the app already running.
That's sort of what I did so far, go out with the laptop. But usually the laptop is my control machine in the office, and going out with that disconnects all sort of stuff I'm running. Therefore I hope the 'just-a-monitor' solution would help.
It is also a long time since I have played with multiple x sessions, back long ago I used to launch 2 gnome 2 x sessions one for each screen, back then I used to use nvidia-settings to mostly generate a xorg.conf file for my system. I guess you might have to do something in this area.
Tell me. I'd been translating the XFree Howto to german. Loooong ago. But unused skills vanish :o But, as always: As soon as you start asking for help the solution falls on your head from nowhere. I had been looking at fance xrandr options like output and providers and what else. But the simplest solution is easy to overlook. xrandr --auto was all that was needed and the monitor came to life :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org