Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:36:17 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-10-11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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?

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