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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: User question on multi-head support
From:       Lucas Murray <lmurray () undefinedfire ! com>
Date:       2009-07-11 7:44:54
Message-ID: f09827650907110044r17a622a9k95522d6dcafe1883 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Andreas Pakulat<apaku@gmx.de> wrote:
> Not as Aaron means, that is just multi-screen. What Aaron means with
> multi-head is 2 monitors showing two different X11 sessions (i.e. :1 and
> :0). Unfortunately there are no clear terms for all these things
> (AFAIK).

Almost. Two X "screens" on the same X server which ends up being :0.0
and :0.1 and not :0.0 and :1.0 (Which is two separate "screens" on two
separate servers).

Although we call it "multi-head" I guess the more correct term would
be something like "multi-screen" as there are multiple X "screens".
The problem is that the term "multi-head" is used as a synonym of
"multi-monitor" in the hardware communities (E.g. graphics cards being
advertised as "dual-head" and the Matrox DualHead2Go) which of course
causes confusion with Xinerama-like multi-screen setups in Linux. =(

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