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List:       fvwm
Subject:    Re: FVWM: multi-screen operation
From:       Elizabeth Schwartz <eschwart () genuity ! net>
Date:       2001-01-24 14:51:35
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Please CC replies to the list (or forward to me) I am very interested in 
the answers!!!

At 01:16 PM 1/23/01 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
>i'm wondering how well fvwm can deal with multiple screens.

Right now, at work, we run Solaris 2.6 and fvwm on our multi-head desktops 
and use software called "x-big-x" which makes the two screens act as one 
large virtual screen. You can drag between windows, etc. Their URL is 
www.x-software.com . We use this in our NOC to control the BIG screens. 
This software is produced by (literally) two guys in a garage in Germany 
and while it works perfectly, there are some organizational reasons why 
we're moving away from it (past a certain size, a big company can't use 
software supported by one guy in a garage in Germany - and also we're 
running too much stuff that is unsupported by Sun, which gets to be an 
issue in a 24x7 operation - but the software works great)

Down the road, we're moving to Solaris 2.8 and I'm really hopeful about 
"xinerama" which comes with X11 R6. xinerama is supposed to make the two 
screens into one. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, hope to do so in a 
week or three. I'm looking forward to GNOME.

On the down side, some of our application vendors are speccing that 
they  **REQUIRE** CDE. We're going to have to do some work with that. 
Nobody wants to go back to CDE (except for the guys doing the application 
support.)

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Elizabeth Schwartz                          781-262-6565
Unix System Administrator                   eschwart@genuity.net
Genuity, Inc                                

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