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Triple Monitor Xorg Woes

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi guys! I've got an interesting setup going here and wondering if it's possible to set it up the way I want it. I have 3 monitors. 2 of them are hooked up to my nouveau card and one of them is hooked up to the intel integrated graphics. This is all working well when I have each monitor on it's own xscreen with Xinerama.My issue is that compositing with Xinerama only seems to work when I have 2 xscreens enabled. What does this mean? This means that if I want to experiment with any of the more mainstream DE's the way they were meant to be I cannot do it without disabling one (HowTos)

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