On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:36:17 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-10-11, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My research into nvidia's docs leads me to believe that TwinView is > > designed to make the presence of two physical monitors invisible and > > present one giant X screen, with a funky API for dead spaces (which may > > or may not work). I'm thinking Xinerama is the better option, despite the > > fact that it's old, clunky, hopeless at dealing with XRandR and can't be > > changed on the fly. I'm happy to set up two ServerLayouts to deal with > > this. > > > > I'd appreciate some pros and cons feedback from the list before I embark > > on a huge emerge -e world to include Xinerama support. > > There's a third option you haven't mentioned: two different > displays rather than a large virtual display spread across two > monitors. After reading up on the options, it's what I chose > to do. > > Cons: > > * You can't drag a window from one display to the other.
This is pretty much a requirement for how I like to do things at work The rest of your pros and cons either suit me just fine or don't feature at all. As for multiple desktops on a screen, I would just dispend with this. The one thing I really do want to do is launch a reply window from kmail and drag it to the second monitor, where I use it like it was a big sticky note scratch-pad. I do the same thing with wiki pages, pdfs and other reference docs while working on the main monitor (which itself tends have many windows open on it). I don't think I would be able to do this with your setup, please correct me if I'm wrong? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
