On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 4:34 PM Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:51:33 -1000 > Joel Roth via Dng <[email protected]> wrote: snip > One question: How does your above statement hold up when Wayland > becomes the law of the land? >
Greetings From what little I"ve been able to discern about Wayland I really hope that it doesn't become the law of the land. (<rant on) I will admit that I"m downright weird - - - - I have 2 graphics cards and presently 4 monitors with the 5th sitting waiting for time to install. One of my cards is old enough so that I run nouveau instead of any proprietary option (the card is EOLed!). I first set up this system in the beginning of 2011 and really struggled to find useful information to run this multi-monitor setup. There is a tiny bit of information that is available since the initial setup but very little which tells me that running multi-gpu and multi-monitor is highly unusual in the linux community. I just finished yesterday a project where I actually was needing to use all 4 monitors (all the screen real estate) and I still found myself wishing for more. For setup after any boot or reboot I use xrandr using notes from what I was able to find (xrandr is very terribly exampled and the notes are adequate but really do need a lot of experimenting - - - - which is not comfortable for most!!) better develop for myself. Spent a little time just now doing some searching and it seems that multi-gpu and serious multi-monitor (more than 2) is now considered to be the province of gamers. I don't really play any games - - - I have too much fun just using software on my system - - - - but then I'm a business man and self-employed and that means, by definition, that I'm weird. I am working with software in a very wide range of things, from CADD to CAM (that very little at present), to spreadsheets, to starting to work in self designed software supporting equipment that I'm fabricating and a bunch of other things. To date I've been mostly a software user but am starting on becoming a software developer because in certain areas software just isn't adequate. In the software using I've found myself pushing the envelope because I combine things in ways that seem to all too often be non-customary. So - - - to draw the circle a little closer to closed - - - - what I see in Wayland doesn't enthuse me one iota - - - multi-gpu and serious i multi-monitor stuff is really still considered 'weird' and that means that its not really supported and if there is some support - - - - its called good luck finding it. (Most of the information on the web for xrandr is for version 1.3 (meaning version 3) or earlier yet I have found a hint that version 1.6 is immanent but I can't really find any information on what is proposed.) (>rant off) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
