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So I have four monitors set up on Debian Lenny. They all work, but I can't drag windows to any other screens. I can open terminal on one screen and ...
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    4 Monitors, but can't drag windows between screens

    So I have four monitors set up on Debian Lenny. They all work, but I can't drag windows to any other screens. I can open terminal on one screen and web browser on another fine, but if I try to open web browser on one screen and open it again on another it automatically goes to the same screen it is already open on. I need the four screens for network monitoring through the web browser. So I need one instance of web browser opened on each screen and can't do it. Here is my xorg.conf file. Any advice would be appreciated.

    Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "X.org Configured"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
    Screen 3 "Screen3" RightOf "Screen2"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "Xinerama" "3"
    EndSection

    Section "Files"

    # FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
    # FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
    # FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
    FontPath "built-ins"
    EndSection

    Section "Module"
    Load "bitmap"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "ddc"
    Load "i2c"
    Load "bitmap"
    Load "ddc"
    Load "extmod"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx"
    Load "int10"
    # Load "type1"
    Load "vbe"
    EndSection

    Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "Xinerama" "1"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "DELL SE178WFP"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh 50.0 - 77.0
    Option "DPMS"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor1"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "DELL SE178WFP"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh 50.0 - 77.0
    Option "DPMS"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor2"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "DELL SE178WFP"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh 50.0 - 77.0
    Option "DPMS"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor3"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "DELL SE178WFP"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh 50.0 - 77.0
    Option "DPMS"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce FX5200"
    BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
    Screen 0
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device1"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce FX5200"
    BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
    Screen 1
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device2"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce FX5200"
    BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
    Screen 0
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device3"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce FX5200"
    BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
    Screen 1
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Videocard0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
    BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
    Screen 0
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Videocard1"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
    BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
    Screen 1
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Videocard2"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
    BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
    Screen 0
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Videocard3"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
    BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
    Screen 1
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"

    # Option "TwinView" "0"
    # Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    # Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Videocard0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"

    # Option "TwinView" "0"
    # Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-1"
    # Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    Identifier "Screen1"
    Device "Videocard1"
    Monitor "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"

    # Option "TwinView" "0"
    # Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-2"
    # Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    Identifier "Screen2"
    Device "Videocard2"
    Monitor "Monitor2"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"

    # Option "TwinView" "0"
    # Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-3"
    # Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    Identifier "Screen3"
    Device "Videocard3"
    Monitor "Monitor3"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection

    Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
    EndSection

    I know it's a little messy, I've been playing with this for a few days now. I finally got the four screens working this morning. And to make it harder, I've only been working with Linux for three and a half weeks...lol.

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    Did you manage to do it?

    Did you manage to solve the problems? DOes anybody knows if there is a 4 heads twinview nvidia card?

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    you should be able to enable twinview for 4 monitors using the nvidia-settings tool, but I can't confirm that since i don't have 4 monitors

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