* Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 02:28]: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:20:08 +0200, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:23 -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 > >> LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity > >> here: the difference > ^^^ doh! this should be "CRT" > > >> in resolution and the different display technologies. > > > Why would that be weird? Of course, you won't have two identical > > screens or a symmetric setup, but that works just fine. I am > > talking about two separate screens in the config, not xinerama or > > other stuff. That's how I use it and how I like it. > > Well, it seems I made an error: the smaller screen would be a CRT, > not an LCD. :/ I was thinking of stuff like text smoothing, which is > best done differently on the two types of screens, but I've not seen > any setups where one screen uses subpixel rendering and the other > doesn't -- especially using Xinerama, which is important. I need to > be able to move windows from screen to screen.
I'm not sure if it's of much help, but I have a dual-monitor setup w/ my laptop having a CRT connected through a KVM as a second screen. I'm just mirroring the laptop's screen to the CRT, but everything works fine. I'd imagine merging would work OK too. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et:
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