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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: to Xinerama or not Xinerama -that- is the Question
From:       Linus McCabe <Linus () mccabe ! nu>
Date:       2005-02-15 21:21:29
Message-ID: 200502152221.29869.Linus () mccabe ! nu
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Personally, I'd like to use a mixture of xinerama and dual x sessions. 
Ie, Id like to be able to drag windows between the monitors, but i wish the 
virtual desktops were individual, so i could have one desktop on one monitor, 
while switching to another desktop on the other one.

That said, i cant use xinerama. I have to use nvidias version of it (twinview) 
as xinerama gives me significantly worse performance...

/Linus

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 19.00, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 1:49 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:58, David Vestal wrote:
> > > > I am on dual head but I don't like xinerama because it doesn't
> > > > allow enough customisation.  For instances it extends my background
> > > > over my two monitors which is NOT pretty looking!  Also there is
> > >
> > > Have you tried setting the background to be Tiled instead of Scaled? I
> > > run a dual head with Xinerama and this works for me.
> >
> > yeah, this still often sucks though =(
>
> I find scaled maxspect works the best with my Xinerama setup, which is a
> bit weird because it has one monitor at 1600x1200 and one at 1280x1024 with
> a screen area of 1280x1200 (so both monitors have the same height, so that
> I don't have an un-mouseable space).
>
> Running with scaled maxpect, the picture is the right proportion on both
> monitors, it is just cut off a tiny bit on the smaller one.
>
> Before this, for a few months I also had my background set by a script that
> used imagemagick to compost two pictures.
>
> But yes, it sure would be nice to have native support for two backgrounds
> in kcontrol.
 
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