Hi all, I've recently set up Compiz on a dual-monitor system (with an nVidia card in TwinView) and I was wondering whether there are any plans to implement a true multi-screen desktop.
At the moment there are only two choices I'm aware of: 1. Set up each monitor as a separate X screen (:0.0 and :0.1), which allows you to use each screen independently, with the drawback being that you can't move windows between monitors. 2. Use TwinView (or Xinerama) to create a single X screen that spans both monitors, the drawback being that you lose the benefit of having multiple monitors, instead having the interface appear as if you only have one monitor again (albeit a very large one) - if you switch desktop on one monitor, it also changes on the other monitor. For example, in the first scenario with two X screens, it's possible to have distinct desktops on each screen. I can stick a web browser on one monitor, and a terminal on the other. If I switch from a terminal in workspace #1 to an IDE in workspace #2, the web browser sits unaffected on the other screen. This is what I mean by "true" multimonitor, in that you can manipulate the contents of one screen without affecting the other. On the other hand in the second scenario if I switch workspace on one monitor, the workspace also changes on the second monitor, so it's impossible to manipulate each display independently. What would be ideal is to be able to switch workspace independently on each monitor - for example displaying the first monitor's view of workspace #3 on the first monitor, but the second monitor's view of workspace #2 on the second monitor. Would this sort of thing be difficult to implement? I think it would make multimonitor setups much more useful, as you wouldn't need to keep flicking back and forth between workspaces as you do with a single screen (or currently with a TwinView configuration.) Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.compiz-fusion.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
