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On Friday 18 September 2015 14:44:20 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> >> There's a few reasons you might want more than one screen. Primary one |
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> >> is two heads and two video cards with different resolutions and dpi. |
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> >> Xinerama and big desktop et al will use the lower setting for both. |
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> > Actually, this desktop has xinerama enabled in USE-flags. IOW, I'm |
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> > assuming I am using Xinerama on here. I can change the resolution of |
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> > either screen and it all still works. (apart from the weird look of |
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> > windows on the other screen) |
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> But can you set DPI independenty for the two monitors? I'm guessing |
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> not, since you mention the "weird look of windows" -- that's probably |
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> due to use of the wrong DPI on one of the monitors. With multiple |
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> screens, you _can_ set DPI correctly for two different monitors. |
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> >> Some folk have 2 screens just because they've always done it that way |
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> >> for years and don't want to change |
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> >> |
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> >> These days the usual case is one video card with more than one output |
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> >> so you connect identical monitors to each. For that, one big desktop |
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> >> makes sense. |
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> > Same with laptops, all laptops I've used in the past 5 years all had |
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> > the option to add a 2nd display and use that. Even with differing |
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> > resolutions, it works the same way. Plug it in, change the setting if |
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> > necessary (kdesettings does a good job with that) and I have 2 |
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> > screens where i can move windows back and forth. It's great for |
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> > presentations. Can open a text-file with the passwords on the laptop |
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> > screen and copy/paste them from there onto the big screen everyone |
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> > else sees. |
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> Except for the "moving windows back and forth" it works the same with |
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> dual screens except you can properly set DPI for both of them. |
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Not with the kdesettings. |
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I tend to always use the native resolution of the screens. |
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> There is one other disadvantage of having multiple screens that I |
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> forgot to mention. Apart from the gtk-3 selection brokenness, there |
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> are some buggy X apps which just plain refuse to run on multiple |
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> screens simultaneously (Firefix is one). They were apparently written |
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> by MS-Windows programmers based on the assumption that a computer is |
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> always used by exactly one person to run exactly one program on |
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> exactly on screen. Most other X apps are properly written and support |
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> multiple screens just fine. |
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I'll test without "xinerama" in the near future and let you know. |
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(requires a rebuild of a lot of stuff...) |
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Joost |