Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> >
> > > "Using the Xinerama Extesions to Multihead XFree86 V.4.0+"
> > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html
> > >
> > > First result from google for xinerama, you prolly saw it already but hey, it's
> > > worth a shot.
> >
> > oh. duh. <slaps self on forehead>.
> 
> That howto is doing things The Wrong Way though. You should not need to
> edit startx. *cough* Not editing scripts directly if you don't need to
> is a good habit to get into if you use any kind of package managment
> system...

why not just
startx -- +xinerama

the -- separates arguments for startx and arguments passed to the X
server

and if you want it the default alias your startx

alias startx 'startx -- +xinerama'

Eric