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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version
From: Michael <confabulate () kintzios ! com>
Date: 2022-11-21 19:26:30
Message-ID: 1882118.taCxCBeP46 () lenovo ! localdomain
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On Monday, 21 November 2022 18:12:41 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2022-11-21, Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> wrote:
> > On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:50:14 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> On 2022-11-21, Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> wrote:
> >> > On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> >> I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11
> >> >> screens. The proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens,
> >> >> but the drivers for built-in Intel and Radeon drivers don't seem
> >> >> to.
> >> >
> >> > AMD APUs with embedded radeon graphics work fine here with two
> >> > monitors (DVI + HDMI ports).
> >>
> >> Yes, multiple montors work fine with both Intel and Radeon embedded
> >> graphics with Xorg drivers.
> >>
> >> It's multiple X11 screens that isn't supported. An X11 screen is the
> >> entity that's managed by single window manager and comprises what's
> >> usually called "a desktop". A screen can include multiple monitors.
> >>
> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/multihead#Separate_screens
> >
> > You're right, I thought you meant two different monitors in Xinerama
> > style. I didn't know anyone who still uses separate displays
> > (screens) these days.
>
> I found it very helpful when I dealing with interruptions (which is
> about 50% of a typical day). I could flip one of the screens to a new
> virtual desktop (while leaving my email and web browser as-is on the
> other screen), deal with the interruption, then flip that screen back
> to the desktop containing whatever I was origininally working on.
>
> My office setup had three screens, each with four virtual desktops.
>
> When using multiple screens, you develop the habit of using one screen
> for common, always-on stuff (e.g. email, web browser) and the other
> screen(s) for working on code (or whatever).
I found Enlightenment to be most versatile in this respect. Unlike say
Plasma, which has two monitors locked on the same virtual desktop and when you
switch to another virtual desktop *both* monitors flip over, in Enlightenment
each monitor can switch to a different virtual desktop independently. Like
you, I keep always-on stuff on the left monitor, while switching between
different virtual desktops on the right monitor.
> There are two main drawbacks to the multiple-screen setup:
>
> * You can't drag a window from one screen to the other. With the
> monitor sizes that are common now, that's not as big an annoyance
> as it used to be.
With Enlightenment you can move windows across monitors, irrespective of the
virtual desktop each monitor displays.
> * There are a few brain-dead (but vital) applications (e.g. Chrome)
> that refuse to allow a user to run either multiple instances of the
> application or allow windows on multiple screens (or X
> servers). I'm a bit baffled by that restriction, but I'm sure it
> allowed the developers to take some shortcut that saved 12 bytes of
> data and 10 or 15 lines of code (out of many hundreds of megabytes
> of occupied RAM and millions lines of code).
>
> That said, you're right: using mulitple screens is no longer common.
> It's not even supported by many desktops these days. I switched from
> XFCE to openbox when XFCE dropped support for multiple screens.
>
> --
> Grant
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