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

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2008-10-12, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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

Two displays is probably not an option for you.

> 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.

I guess I don't know how anybody can get along conveniently
with just one desktops.  Perhaps other people don't get
interrupted while working on one task and have to switch to a
different task.  Once I've got a desktop set up for the task at
hand, I find it much easier to switch to a new desktop when I
need to open up a bunch of new windows/programs to handle an
interruption.

> 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).

That's what I do: I usually have PDF documents, e-mails, web
pages, etc. open on one screen while I work on code on the
other. At other times I have code and build windows on one
display and test-driver programs on the other.

But, Instead of dragging things from one monitor to the other, I
just open them where I want them.

> I don't think I would be able to do this with your setup,
> please correct me if I'm wrong?

I'm not entirely sure what "this" is.  I usually know where I'm
going to want a window and I open on the appropriate display.

-- 
Grant