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 1KpMBW-00060j-K8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:06:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C682CE01DF; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8284DE01DF for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so1227567ika.2 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:06:00 -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=dVOPIM9x+2mR519RZ5Shb50v251xXrw12MQ6MyVAjvU=; b=SiXdtcu85Vfx6LKpmkWaWq15qbRIwUB+VEa5I+kexAXeMvZRg4pWqETEbmnWhTGBjP ggGKEMHP+NzBIRg4v6nReRWRHax8fzlke/7BlMbd3lxb5mdqXwvABIP5tKGRv7xpAGEh CJqQcGuBmOGiIZ3o9lXd98YyuqujHOtLNXC5I= 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=FfyuLvib+Yo4O4TIRra2/Inwo9orqdkpv4z17ZotmyvRTh2z0X7ce5BFOHl5oBEBTi mOUk+USzEEueYREpQjxBuimTxY1Q7STgV9CrO+3hlG2u5G4qmNvxdd64WwbH/lrmhOYr z4wbpJDzzfCfntbVBVPHODdzU3YxVJtgX+hN4= Received: by 10.210.130.14 with SMTP id c14mr5398948ebd.187.1223899560103; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.1.245.102? (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j8sm7690640gvb.1.2008.10.13.05.05.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:05:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:05:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200810112334.10957.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200810130910.34455.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20081013115349.GA10342@ksp.sk> In-Reply-To: <20081013115349.GA10342@ksp.sk> 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-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810131405.53808.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 339375a3-8c57-47df-9eb1-75eaab0d12a6 X-Archives-Hash: efa371c32aef3a8564752826ae547939 On Monday 13 October 2008 13:53:49 YoYo siska wrote: > tabletka ~ # equery hasuse xinerama | wc -l > 285 > > most of them are apps from kde-base/* (3.5.9), seems that it changed > between 3.5.9 and 3.5.10, plus iwndow managers like fluxbox, openbox... That looks better. I was convinced that most kde-3 apps had a xinerama USE flag, hence my 'emerge -e world' comment that Iain picked up on. I wonder why it was changed for KDE-3.5.10, it seems that Xinerama support is now automatically built for most of KDE-3 (deduced by examining the ebuild and ldd output) > > Obviously, this understanding of mine is flawed. Which bit did I get > > wrong? > > Xinerama consists basically of two parts, the protocol to communicate the > position/sizes of screen between the Xserver and the applications (which > you usually get by enabling the xinerama use flag) and an xserver part > (module?) that you can use to set up the screens. What you said is > correct for the Xserver setup part... > You use either xinerama setup to put together completely different > displays (might be different cards, such as one nvidia, one ati, ...) > or twinview in case of a dualhead nvidia setup. But both this setups use > the xinerama protocol to let the apps/wm know the placement of the > monitors. OK, so there's a xinerama protocol and a xinerama lib and these are not the same thing -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com