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On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:56 +1200, David Antliff wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Geraint Jones wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> if its for a larger desktop get a second monitor and go dual head ;)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I definitely concur - two screens means independently switchable virtual </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">desktops. There's only a practical limit but to give you an idea, I have </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">eight virtual desktops on each 'screen' (of which I have two) so I have 64 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">possible desktop combinations. One for firefox, one on each side for </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">emacs, one for cross-compilation, one for email, etc. You get the picture. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You cannot move an application between screens (unless it's a special </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Gnome app....). Both monitors are driven by the one nvidia gfx card. 3D </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">OpenGL etc works fast and fine.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The 'other' dual-head desktop configuration is called Xinerama but it's </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">not very useful. Both screens have to change at the same time (it's </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">effectively a double-width desktop) and the only thing it gains you over </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">my method is the ability to move windows between screens, or have a window </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">span both screens (giant movie?).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">So, it depends on what you want to do.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">David.</FONT>
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<TT>>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?).</TT><BR>
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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 ;-)<BR>
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