How to display different content on different Monitors

[Amanda_Fedora]

Hiii

I am currently using and working on Fedora 10 and have couple of monitors set up to it. Now, I want to display different content on different monitors (not the same content on all monitors). It should keep displaying Pictures and/or videos with a certain intervals of time as soon as the fedora loads. How should make this happen. Any idea of like writing a small script or a C code to make this happen !!?

Thank you.

Thank you.
Amanda

[Rubberman]

You need to set up your displays as a xinerama screen. It will look like one big screen to your system, making it easy to drag windows from one display to the other. That's what I do. I often run a virtual machine on one display, and my regular Linux applications on the other, though I am not particularly limited in that respect.

[Amanda_Fedora]

Hi

Its an application where in a monitor is dedicated only to display videos/Pictures (as soon as the fedora boots) and does not run any other application, where as the other monitor is a general purpose.

Will it be fine if I run videos in a VLC media player on one monitor continuously in full screen mode and pictures with Image viewer.....what kind of script should I start with to make it automated. Any Idea would be greatly appreciated. (Ex: When we go to a cingular store or Target or Walmarts we find the videos running on a 24" screens displaying ads, info....I am looking kind of similar stuff to display videos onto a dedicated screen ...Thank you guys)

Rubberman, Thank you for your response...But, I am looking not as a desktop working environment (I am sorry I could not get it right to you, Probably, I hope, have a better idea what I am thinking of...a little start up idea of this implementation would be great..) and I am looking into an application perspective.

[Rubberman]

Understood. You don't need to set it as one big monitor with xinerama, but can leave it as two displays, each managed separately by your X-Windows server. They will be separately named, so you should be able to start applications on either one as you desire. Since I don't do that myself I cannot say exactly how you would do that. How you do that is also dependent upon the display manager and what applications you are running. So, from what you say, you want one display to show some videos or photos when the system starts, and the other to allow user logins and/or run videos without logging in? You always need a login to run applications, but you can configure the system to auto-login as some specific user with minimal privileges other than what you allow them.

[Amanda_Fedora]

That was perfect..and that is what I am looking into....multiple monitors managed separately (independent of each other), but commands sent from the same motherboard...Initially, What is that I should look into to make the videos from the hard drive display on only one monitor, then I can look into to display from the server

Is there any application (Kind of VLC and Image viewer combined) that can play Videos and as well display Images?

[Rubberman]

The KDE video player kaffeine can display images as well as videos. However, if you have some standard sets of pictures to display, you can use something like ffmpeg to create a streaming set of jpeg images with delays between which can be played as a unit on any video player such as vlc, kaffeine, totem, or mplayer.