What is everyone using these days for multiple monitors? I had 1 computer setup using Compiz, which is cool (first time i've used it on my own computer). I really like using it, much more than multiple desktops. But then i got an extra monitor. So i thought, great, i'll use the second monitor and Compiz at the same time. There is a youtube video out there with someone using multiple monitors and compiz, so somehow it can be done. This lead me to a lot of reading. Of course the gold standard for multi monitors is/was Xinerama. But as of 9/2007 Sourceforge says xinerama is deprecated. Bummer. So, what's next? X11 says they're moving their multi monitor support to xrandr. Anyone been using that? Since compiz/multiple monitors don't seem to like each other all that well, i thought at the very least i'd like to rotate my second monitor 90degrees, but i can't do that with Xinerama. I might can do it with xrandr but the older distro i'm running has an old X11 and an old intel driver. I can upgrade and try some bleeding edge distro, i don't really care about that.
I'm just curious how others are doing multiple monitors and/or compiz? http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR http://sourceforge.net/projects/xinerama/ Also, i found some info about DMX (Distributed Multihead support) and this lambdavision group set that up. It looks very cool, but out of my price range! http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/lambdavision/display.html more info about dmx can be found here: http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-mltihed/index.html werd bb -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
