Am Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:32:47 +1000 schrieb Adam Nielsen <[email protected]>:
>> i have three monitors on two cards, that means i can not use twinview > >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. > Yes thats possible, you are right, but the problem now is awesome sees only two monitors - one single screen and the other one is the combined twinview, so most layouts are useless. Maybe there is a way to tell awesome how i would like my screens (like fvwm with XineramaSlsSize), kind of a hack - but sufficient. >> 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 I'm working with 195.30, OpenGL is working perfect with good performance, but things like xcompmgr keep telling me "No composite extension" > >> 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.) > And you are completely out of luck, if you take for example gimp - image on one screen, tools et al on one of the others ... -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
