On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:40:13PM -0500, Marco Fonseca wrote: > 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 ...
iirc, you just need to run a copy of bbkeys on head screen. xOr -- I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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