From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KovwV-0000eR-5X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7544E03E1; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.233]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A3BE03E1 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c37so764361wra.26 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:04:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=fzSLbN7MN8K+5X/2yrAIS6wslVQqRclj+JA0fOrx7Yo=; b=Qi6CEpxF9F56BxQl1OUnYMteDHI+nZCg7qe3oAippIKqsYS6RnqMBr05VNdnbOWg0L eOdJKV460qVeSJoZCC/4jsrQaxMMuSzyPl0bljjl6soFRaPLtLcgeDS6sdAjWYo2CXJs xWP5aM8QbnoX6wbAd44cIsmyXYGiit4GUN7ac= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=OqsiPCJuelUT2zXGPiIo80zN2xqzvQl1Lb0mg+hy0/Op17PrL9mfKmqH2sI0KhRBn8 koJxtE77urIdcUGtkvOqqXzuen+TUnCNF3gr7Sg5VHxZ9YMPyWfloP5o+5WfNYyWZuVC lBMoMtrCPI1iqWQY6mHC2VrzUKhVQtI0ZBiQw= Received: by 10.64.181.19 with SMTP id d19mr5564098qbf.34.1223798685072; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? (dsl-243-231-180.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.231.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s12sm6835167qbs.9.2008.10.12.01.04.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:04:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:04:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200810112334.10957.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810121004.34212.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d60addf9-a7de-4f0a-9c2b-23ed357e7d6a X-Archives-Hash: b17da43a16a3b2d3558d5ad733956948 On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:36:17 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-10-11, Alan McKinnon 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