[gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops
On 2012-10-25, mindrunner ker...@ccube.de wrote: On 10/25/2012 07:40 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: So I actually have a total of 12 virtual desktops (3 sets of 4). Searching the terminal window opened 6 hours ago on one of the 12 virutal desktops sounds like fun :D It's not as bad as it sounds. I rarely use more than 2 virtual desktops, and depending on what I'm doing, there's an informal system: when doing development the left monitor is for looking at PDF datasheets, center monitor is for edit/build source files, right hand monitor is for running the program. When I get interrupted by a phone call or visitor and need to do someting else temporarily, I flip one or more of the screens to a different virtual desktop. It's sort of like a CPU for which you have a reguster usage convention and a stack to push in-use registers onto when you get interrupted or have to switch contexts. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! VICARIOUSLY experience at some reason to LIVE!! gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops
On 2012-10-25, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: I have a laptop and an external monitor. Here's how I do it using Xorg.config -- Section ServerLayout Identifier Triple Screen 0 Samsung0 Screen 1 Samsung1 rightof Samsung0 Screen 2 Acer leftof Samsung0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection -- There are three Device sections (one for one video card, and one for each of the DVI outputs on a second video card). There are then three corresponding Screen sections (named Samsung0, Samsung1, and Acer). Dunno anything about xrandr... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Here I am at the flea at market but nobody is buying gmail.commy urine sample bottles ...
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.comwrote: On 2012-10-25, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: I have a laptop and an external monitor. Here's how I do it using Xorg.config -- Section ServerLayout Identifier Triple Screen 0 Samsung0 Screen 1 Samsung1 rightof Samsung0 Screen 2 Acer leftof Samsung0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection -- There are three Device sections (one for one video card, and one for each of the DVI outputs on a second video card). There are then three corresponding Screen sections (named Samsung0, Samsung1, and Acer). Does this setup really separate the screens to 2 desktops and not one big virtual desktop? Dunno anything about xrandr... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Here I am at the flea at market but nobody is buying gmail.commy urine sample bottles ...
[gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops
On 2012-10-25, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.comwrote: On 2012-10-25, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: I have a laptop and an external monitor. Here's how I do it using Xorg.config -- Section ServerLayout Identifier Triple Screen 0 Samsung0 Screen 1 Samsung1 rightof Samsung0 Screen 2 Acer leftof Samsung0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection -- There are three Device sections (one for one video card, and one for each of the DVI outputs on a second video card). There are then three corresponding Screen sections (named Samsung0, Samsung1, and Acer). Does this setup really separate the screens to 2 desktops and not one big virtual desktop? My configuration above provides 3 separate X displays and 3 separate desktops. The mouse pointer and focus moves among the three screens as you would expect, but each screen is a a separate X display. The three DISPLAY variables end up as :0.0, :0.1, and :0.2. [There's only one X server running.] That means you can't drag a window from one screen to another, and a window can't overlap across two screens. It also means for a few applications you can only have the app running on one screen at a time. The vast majority of X apps don't care. But some, like Firefox (and other web browsers like Chrome and Opera), have added extra logic to prevent it. You'll have to ask the developers why, but I think it has something to do with their unwillingness to deal with file-locking when accessing config files. In _my_ particular configuration, I also have XFCE configured so that each of the three screens is configured with a pager that can flip through four virtual desktops independently of the other two screens. So I actually have a total of 12 virtual desktops (3 sets of 4). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops
On 10/25/2012 07:40 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: So I actually have a total of 12 virtual desktops (3 sets of 4). Searching the terminal window opened 6 hours ago on one of the 12 virutal desktops sounds like fun :D
