so i just installed release 15 with xorg and mate

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but then it wouldn't let me move the mouse in mate googled everything for /boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf things to add and so on. nothing changed. then i switched to xlibre. 3x my system rebooted after running startx. only thing in ~/.xinitrc is exec mate-session. Xorg logs show no errors. 4th times the charm, i got a mate desktop with a mouse that moves... but now on my 3 monitor setup the mouse disappears on one monitor and when i put firefox into max size, it expands across all 3 monitors.
really this isn't a magic mushroom trip. this is the whack exp i am having in reality. where to begin?
 
They say that those who work with multiple monitors and need convenient scaling install Wayland. Wayland works well with high resolutions and multiple monitors. Something like that. Torment yourself.
 
they? they who? promoting an ideology when there's clearly a configuration error that needs addressed is not useful really.. i've used xlibre on linux for example and it works great, no issues.
 
Some tools like arandr or lxrandr can help to configure your screen. It seem like if your config was to use three screen like one big.
I do not use mate but it may has something in the control center or preference panel for configuring the screen.
 
lizzias said:
they? they who? promoting an ideology when there's clearly a configuration error that needs addressed is not useful really.. i've used xlibre on linux for example and it works great, no issues.
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If you are on Xlibre try to ask in xlibre github orin
baaz

Thread 'Porting X11Libre to FreeBSD.'

This was a topic that I felt needed it's own thread.
You've probably heard of X11Libre, and its backstory till now.
My position on the topic is that we need a well maintained X11 server with good security features, And That's X11Libre.
I want this thread to be a place dedicated to technicalities of porting this new project, for other discussions we can use the other thread;).

So I have started working on porting X11Libre to FreeBSD few days ago.
Here is my GitHub repository.
The root of this repository is like a mini ports tree. You can do...
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I ran in the past 2 monitors on laptop with Openbox.
 
You have physical access? Some medieval exclusion tactixs might work. Do all 3 graphics output connectors work alone with 1 display? If so, what happens at 2 connected?
Also basic commands are useful: dmesg, xrandr, pciconf... Are all devices visible and without problems? And what says X.org on the CLI?
 
as it turns out with amdgpu inabled and the .ko in the etc/rc.conf file there is still the issue with xlibre-xf86-video-scfb that needs to be removed otherwise it locks up the screen and/or goes wonky. ghostbsd forums worked it out. I switched to ghost bsd for a while.
 
When I had two monitors with different orientation and different resolution, I used x11/xrandr to configure it, it was this one line in .xinitrc: and it worked all those years. It does not matter what desktop environment you use then.
Code: 
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --auto --rotate normal --pos 0x0 --output VGA-1 --auto --rotate left --right-of HDMI-1
 
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