> With a decent window manager and xinerama like setup, that is supposed to > work quite well. You only get one display, but the window manager can manage > them independently. I can only name one that allows that (awesome), but I'm > pretty sure some others do as well.
Thanks for the pointer, I found this thread which seems to give a simple looking beginners guide to getting awesome working so I might give that a go sometime when I have some spare time. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678902 :-) Looks like it should be, well awesome. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hommey [mailto:m...@glandium.org] Sent: 08 February 2011 09:58 To: Thomas Thorne; 612...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#612304: How many new profiles On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:15:47AM +0000, Thomas Thorne wrote: > > The problem is that using different profiles is not really what most > people would expect, so doing that automatically is confusing. > > I can see that it would be confusing and asking for a bug of "my left screen > has the correct homepage but when I load on my right screen it goes to a page > about iceweasel". I guess it is a fundamental part of the firefox system > that only one instance of it can connect to a profile and that all the many > window or tabs are really just that one instance. Only when you have it on a > separate X display it must be a different instance as there is no way of > running the windowing system across them (unless KDE does it but I am not > desperate enough to start using that yet). > > The problem is that when I don't use separate profiles I get the same message > about "already running...". I guess I have work around for now and I can > accept that from the iceweasel end at least there is nothing that can be > really done to improve my situation without confusing others. > > > Anyways, I thought these zaphod type setups were being deprecated? > > I am not sure there are many options if you want to render OpenGL to multiple > displays unless you can communicate from your windowing engine into the > OpenGL system in such a way that you can construct a separate viewpoint for > each head and then assign each viewpoint to a full screen on each display. > > What I wanted to use it for was to have independent multiple desktops on each > head so that I can keep two or three task going and visible without having to > clear what is in my main display. If there is a way to do that without the > zaphod system then I am happy enough but with machines getting more powerful, > graphics cards supporting more outputs and displays getting cheaper I would > think that more people would be using them in a variety of ways. With a decent window manager and xinerama like setup, that is supposed to work quite well. You only get one display, but the window manager can manage them independently. I can only name one that allows that (awesome), but I'm pretty sure some others do as well. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
