Marc Wilson wrote: >On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:20:08PM +0100, Bo Thorsen wrote: > >>So? The Xinerama idea of creating a single logical screen out of multiple >>simply does not work well for desktop usage. Unfortunately Xinerama is the >>only way to achieve a good desktop when using two monitors; starting two X >>servers is only one light gray box better than having two separate machines. >> > >I beg your pardon? I take exception to this. I use two monitors, with one >X server (gotta love a Matrox video card!), and Xinerama is EEEEVVIIIILLLL. > >Ahem. > >I see the ONLY gain in *your* view of Xinerama to be that I can move >windows between monitors. Every other single issue you raise is dealt with >by the simple fact that without Xinerama one monitor is localhost:0.0, and >the other is localhost:0.1. > >And I don't care about being able to move windows between monitors. Start >the bleedin' app on the right monitor in the first place. :) > >Further, using Xinerama means no DRI. Maybe DRI doesn't matter to you, but >it does to many, many people. > >I assume that your comment about a "light gray box" means that you usually >use a window manager that doesn't understand the concept of dual-head, and >therefore there's no management going on on the second head. Many don't. >I believe that only FVWM and Blackbox do... all the others either fork >another copy of themselves to deal with the other screen (Windowmaker, >Enlightenment, etc), or expect you to do it yourself (oroborus, sawfish, >icewm, aewm, etc). Blackbox is quite happy to manage multiple screens from >a single instance of the window manager (there's that minimalism again!). > >Blackbox has exceptional multiple screen support. I would oppose, and >hope that everyone else would oppose, any solution that impacted that in >any way. > >Not that we've gotten that far, of course. Yet. Let's please not. > bbkeys doesn't seem to friendly in multiple head environment without xinerama, but maybe I'm not configuring it right. You have any problems with this? Only haveing bbkeys working on one head is a big pain in the ...
Marco
