[wellylug] Wide screens

[Geraint Jones]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:56 +1200, David Antliff wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Geraint Jones wrote:
> > if its for a larger desktop get a second monitor and go dual head ;)
> 
> I definitely concur - two screens means independently switchable virtual 
> desktops. There's only a practical limit but to give you an idea, I have 
> eight virtual desktops on each 'screen' (of which I have two) so I have 64 
> possible desktop combinations. One for firefox, one on each side for 
> emacs, one for cross-compilation, one for email, etc. You get the picture. 
> You cannot move an application between screens (unless it's a special 
> Gnome app....). Both monitors are driven by the one nvidia gfx card. 3D 
> OpenGL etc works fast and fine.
> 
> The 'other' dual-head desktop configuration is called Xinerama but it's 
> not very useful. Both screens have to change at the same time (it's 
> effectively a double-width desktop) and the only thing it gains you over 
> my method is the ability to move windows between screens, or have a window 
> span both screens (giant movie?).
> 
> So, it depends on what you want to do.
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
> 

>and the only thing it gains you over my method is the ability to move
windows between screens, or have a window span both screens (giant
movie?).

However if you have a dual head NVidia Card you can use TwinView and
acheve this while also having the benifits of all the other stuff ;-)

Geraint Jones
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