Moving windows between separate X11 screens would be a great feature, i have three monitors on two cards, that means i can not use twinview by nvidia because that supports only one card. And i can also not use xrandr because current versions also only supports one card.
You should be able to use TwinView to combine two of the screens into one though? Unless like me, one of your displays is rotated differently to the other.
I currently have a running xinerama configuration - but with xinerama i have no composite - so no eye candies :( and sometime performance issues.
Have you tried the latest nVidia driver? They seem to support GL with Xinerama now. At least I am able to run OpenGL games across both my Xinerama screens (and I can't use TwinView because one monitor is rotated.) Apparently you need your primary screen to be nVidia, but otherwise it will work with other cards too. It's not that slow either, at least with my two monitors on the same card. (There's a bit of a slowdown but I think that's just from the high resolution.)
Without xinerama i have three different displays: no window moving between screens is possible, but lots of eye candies possible.
This is my preferred way to run, but yes, it's a pain being unable to move windows between screens. Especially as programs like Firefox can't be run across multiple screens (you need a different profile for each screen, which means different bookmarks, etc.)
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