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Step 1 is to enlarge your desktop to have a couple of viewports. I figured I’ll go through it step by step including the easy ones. Here comes a few posts/howtos with screenies.

Open the Ubuntu preferences menu

If you do not have the compiz config control panel install it with: sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager In the control panel select the general options button.

The general options button in the compiz config control panel

In this panel select the desktop size tab.

the desktop size tab in the compiz config control panel

Three, four, five viewports. The sky is the limit. Obviously this is all dependent on a properly install video driver. You need adequate hardware being a powerful NVIDIA or ATI/AMD video card or embedded chipset. I recommend installing the up to date drivers, but it is easiest to just select your corresponding driver from the hardware drivers configuration menu.

The ubuntu hardware drivers control panel

In this control panel you can install the automatically detect drivers for your video hardware.

Select various hardware drivers