Yeah. for some reason multiple desktops are not as productive as compiz. Since with compiz i can rotate the screen without using my mouse and plus it looks cooler when people are looking over my shoulder. I'll wait a few days I think and try out opensuse. Ars says it looks pretty good: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080620-first-look-opensuse-11-out-offers-best-kde-4-experience.html
bb On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM, willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe Nvidia can liberate their accelerated video specs and code so that > people can make their cards work right. It's going to get hard for them to > avoid that with Via, ATI and Intel promissing everthing. > > Getting dual monitors working is not a priority for me but this conversation > is interesting just the same so thanks for sharing. I'd like to implement it > sooner than later and will be up against the same hardware. I have a spare > monitor sitting around and have thought about setting it up for network and > other heads up monitoring. The quick and dirty solution is to plug it into > my gateway and have the processes running there. I'll probably want dual > monitors running at my next job, whatever and whenever that might be. > Eventually, I'll want more screen real estate at home. > > Until then, I'll be happy with Intel where I can get it and 2D nv on most of > my hardware. E16's virtual desktops and pagers have been very good for my > work. Dividing projects onto 3x3 virtual desktops was a good way to organize > a lot of complicated work: > > http://68.225.99.100:1024/photo_album/chron/2007/2007_07_22_thesis_desktop/ > > It was fast and stable on a modest 512 MB RAM, 1GHz PIII laptop that ran at > 800MHz when unplugged. It kind of sucks to not be able to use the video > capability that's there for games but it was more than adequate for movies. > 1440x900 screens are cheap these days and I picked one up the other month. > It's easy to put two documents up against each other on a screen that size or > bigger. More is better but a single large screen took care of that one thing > virtual desktops can't. > > > On Thursday 19 June 2008, Brad Bendily wrote: >> ah yes. nvidia, they have twinview built-in. no need for extra >> software. lucky you. >> doesn't help anyone with a crappy intel card! >> maybe the newer intel is better. OpenSuse 11 was released today, or >> recently. Maybe >> i'll try that. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
