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On 2008-10-11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> My research into nvidia's docs leads me to believe that TwinView is designed |
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> to make the presence of two physical monitors invisible and present one giant |
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> X screen, with a funky API for dead spaces (which may or may not work). I'm |
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> thinking Xinerama is the better option, despite the fact that it's old, |
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> clunky, hopeless at dealing with XRandR and can't be changed on the fly. I'm |
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> happy to set up two ServerLayouts to deal with this. |
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> I'd appreciate some pros and cons feedback from the list before I embark on a |
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> huge emerge -e world to include Xinerama support. |
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There's a third option you haven't mentioned: two different |
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displays rather than a large virtual display spread across two |
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monitors. After reading up on the options, it's what I chose |
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to do. |
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Cons: |
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* You can't drag a window from one display to the other. |
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* Windows can't overlap from one display to the other. |
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* 3D HW accel and HW video overlay only available on one of |
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the displays. |
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Pros: |
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* Mouse movement and focus still act like one large display. |
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* Each display can have it's own set of virtual desktops and |
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they can be switched indpendantly. |
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* Things like window-manager panels/docs/taskbars are managed |
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separately for the two displays. |
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* Displays can have different resolutions, sizes, depths. |
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I particularly like having multiple virtual desktops for each |
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display and being able to independanly toggle the displays |
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among their virtual desktops. Once in a while I wish I could |
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drag a window from one display to the other, but not very |
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often. |
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Grant |
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