Re: xinerama ideas

2003-10-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:49, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse [...] > > > >But another use is one user with xinerama. [...] > >What in the world would I use xinerama for? Not having > >had it, being small-minded, now I can't think of

Re: xinerama ideas

2003-10-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 00:10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi all! > > I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse and I use > them with Backstreet Ruby to have 2 users use the one > Debian system. > > But another use is one user with xinerama. Since I > usually sit 17 inches off the tube, I find looki

Re: xinerama ideas

2003-10-03 Thread David Z Maze
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse and I use > them with Backstreet Ruby to have 2 users use the one > Debian system. > > But another use is one user with xinerama. Since I > usually sit 17 inches off the tube, I find looking at > the other tub

xinerama ideas

2003-10-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! They are sitting so far away because they are normally used to each have a user with its own keyboard and mouse and the PC in between them. That is the Backstreet Ruby multi-user use. So that way I can (at present) boot with each monitor having its own xdm login screen, but way I cannot switc

Re: xinerama ideas

2003-10-03 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse [...] But another use is one user with xinerama. [...] What in the world would I use xinerama for? Not having had it, being small-minded, now I can't think of a use of it. I use two monitors under Win2K (19in @ 1280x1024x32bpp a

Re: xinerama ideas

2003-10-02 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But another use is one user with xinerama. Since I usually sit 17 inches off the tube, I find looking at the other tube, which is 31 inches away, not easy. What in the world would I use xinerama for? Not having had it, being small-minded, now I can't think of a use of it. An

xinerama ideas

2003-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse and I use them with Backstreet Ruby to have 2 users use the one Debian system. But another use is one user with xinerama. Since I usually sit 17 inches off the tube, I find looking at the other tube, which is 31 inches away, not easy. What in the