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On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:36:17 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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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 |
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> > designed to make the presence of two physical monitors invisible and |
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> > present one giant X screen, with a funky API for dead spaces (which may |
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> > or may not work). I'm thinking Xinerama is the better option, despite the |
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> > fact that it's old, clunky, hopeless at dealing with XRandR and can't be |
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> > changed on the fly. I'm happy to set up two ServerLayouts to deal with |
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> > this. |
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> > I'd appreciate some pros and cons feedback from the list before I embark |
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> > on a 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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This is pretty much a requirement for how I like to do things at work |
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The rest of your pros and cons either suit me just fine or don't feature at |
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all. As for multiple desktops on a screen, I would just dispend with this. |
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The one thing I really do want to do is launch a reply window from kmail and |
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drag it to the second monitor, where I use it like it was a big sticky note |
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scratch-pad. I do the same thing with wiki pages, pdfs and other reference |
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docs while working on the main monitor (which itself tends have many windows |
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open on it). |
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I don't think I would be able to do this with your setup, please correct me if |
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I'm wrong? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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