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On Monday, 21 November 2022 18:12:41 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2022-11-21, Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:50:14 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> >> On 2022-11-21, Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> > On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> >> >> I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11 |
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> >> >> screens. The proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens, |
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> >> >> but the drivers for built-in Intel and Radeon drivers don't seem |
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> >> >> to. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > AMD APUs with embedded radeon graphics work fine here with two |
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> >> > monitors (DVI + HDMI ports). |
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> >> |
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> >> Yes, multiple montors work fine with both Intel and Radeon embedded |
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> >> graphics with Xorg drivers. |
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> >> |
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> >> It's multiple X11 screens that isn't supported. An X11 screen is the |
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> >> entity that's managed by single window manager and comprises what's |
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> >> usually called "a desktop". A screen can include multiple monitors. |
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> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/multihead#Separate_screens |
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> > You're right, I thought you meant two different monitors in Xinerama |
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> > style. I didn't know anyone who still uses separate displays |
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> > (screens) these days. |
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> I found it very helpful when I dealing with interruptions (which is |
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> about 50% of a typical day). I could flip one of the screens to a new |
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> virtual desktop (while leaving my email and web browser as-is on the |
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> other screen), deal with the interruption, then flip that screen back |
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> to the desktop containing whatever I was origininally working on. |
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> My office setup had three screens, each with four virtual desktops. |
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> When using multiple screens, you develop the habit of using one screen |
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> for common, always-on stuff (e.g. email, web browser) and the other |
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> screen(s) for working on code (or whatever). |
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I found Enlightenment to be most versatile in this respect. Unlike say |
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Plasma, which has two monitors locked on the same virtual desktop and when you |
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switch to another virtual desktop *both* monitors flip over, in Enlightenment |
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each monitor can switch to a different virtual desktop independently. Like |
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you, I keep always-on stuff on the left monitor, while switching between |
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different virtual desktops on the right monitor. |
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> There are two main drawbacks to the multiple-screen setup: |
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> * You can't drag a window from one screen to the other. With the |
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> monitor sizes that are common now, that's not as big an annoyance |
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> as it used to be. |
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With Enlightenment you can move windows across monitors, irrespective of the |
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virtual desktop each monitor displays. |
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> * There are a few brain-dead (but vital) applications (e.g. Chrome) |
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> that refuse to allow a user to run either multiple instances of the |
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> application or allow windows on multiple screens (or X |
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> servers). I'm a bit baffled by that restriction, but I'm sure it |
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> allowed the developers to take some shortcut that saved 12 bytes of |
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> data and 10 or 15 lines of code (out of many hundreds of megabytes |
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> of occupied RAM and millions lines of code). |
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> That said, you're right: using mulitple screens is no longer common. |
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> It's not even supported by many desktops these days. I switched from |
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> XFCE to openbox when XFCE dropped support for multiple screens. |
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> -- |
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> Grant |