Graphics Administration Guide (July 2008)

The first group of Actions menus can be thought of as “global” actions. They will
typically be active regardless of what has been selected. If any of these menu items are
not visible it is because they are not supported under the current configuration.
The Configure Print Server item allows you to manage print servers. From this menu
item you can create, stop or remove print servers.
On systems that contain a mix of HP Visualize and OEM graphics cards, the Configure
How X Starts item allows you to choose on which graphics devices the X Server should
start. From this action, you can assign which of your configuration files to use as a
display connection - the X* screens file for HP Visualize graphics cards or the XF86Config
file with OEM graphics cards. Running independent X Servers on an HP Visualize
graphics device and an OEM graphics device simultaneously is not supported.
If you have multiple HP Visualize graphics display devices you can configure the X
server to have multiple independent screens. Use the Modify Multi-Screen Layout
menu item to do this.
To configure a multi-screen layout, first select the devices you want to include. In the
X Server Configuration panel click the mouse on the first device, and [Ctrl]-click on
the others. All the devices you want to combine into a multi-screen configuration should
now be highlighted. Then use the Modify Multi-Screen Layout menu item in the Actions
menu to finish the configuration.
SLS is a mechanism for treating homogeneous multi-display configurations as a single
logical screen. This allows the moving/spanning of windows across multiple physical
monitors. The word homogeneous is included because SLS only works if the graphics
devices included in the SLS Configuration are of the same type.
Enabling an SLS configuration is similar to enabling a multi-screen layout. First select
the devices you want to combine into an SLS configuration. In the X Server
Configuration panel click the mouse on the first device, and [Ctrl]-click on the others.
All the devices you want to combine into an multi-screen configuration should now
be highlighted. Then from the "Actions" menu, choose the Single Logical Screen (SLS)
-> Create SLS... menu item to finish the configuration. The "X Server Configuration"
window should now show a single icon denoting an SLS confguration.
The Modify Default Visual menu item lets you set the default visuals and framebuffer
depth on a graphics device.
The second group of “Actions” menus can be thought of as screen actions. They will
be activated depending on which screens have been chosen.
The Describe Screen and Identify Screen menu selections provide information about
the device. Identify Screen flashes the monitor that is connected to the graphics device.
The Modify Screen Options item contains options that are specific to each graphics
device. This list might be different for cards depending on the capabilities of each card.
Specific X server options can be set with the Modify Server Options menu item. See
the item for information on specific options.
38 configuring X server on HP-UX (HP Visualize-FXE)