Nvidia Twinview is Working Some Config Question though

[Mike White]

> Chris Clarke wrote:
> 
>>     I'm hoping someone has done this or something similar and can help
>> me.  I've got an older nvidia card (32 meg GeForce 2) with twinview. 
>> I've got twin working no problem, I have a 19in Monitor and a TV
>> attached.  I've set it up so that there are two "screens" in my
>> xorg.conf file.  One for each, which allows me to use the TV for
>> mplayer and the monitor for everything else.  I did it this way so
>> that I can use the workplace switcher without it affecting the TV. The 
>> problem is there is a panel on the second (TV) desktop, it has all
>> the default fedora icons, I would like to get rid it.  Also even
>> though I start mplayer in full screen mode the panel reappears after a
>> couple minutes of watching video.  Thanks in advance for any help,
> 
> I have the exact same configuration and problem.  I haven't found a real 
> solution, but i found that if i use xine thusly:
> 
> export DISPLAY=:0.1
> xine -f foo.avi
> 
> The fullscreen video output is correctly "on top of" the KDE desktop and 
> panel.  MPlayer for some reason doesn't correctly do fullscreen on a 
> second X display.


The -ontop mplayer option solves this!

woot.