Is E17 done yet? I find the prospect of accelerated graphics on multiple monitors interesting especially as such a thing is not supported in Windows. ;)
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Muralidar Chakravarthi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually dont post often here :). But this is one topic that interests me > as well. I have run twin monitors as well as triple monitors with compiz and > beryl. > > Twin Monitors using nvidia -> I was able to get everything running > including 2 independent cubes, with nividia there are 2 ways to implement > it, either using > twinview or using xinerama. I cant remember of the top of my head which one > yeilds 2 cubes, but its definitely possible. Be prepared for a slowdown > unless > your card is capable of running 2x monitors 3d at full resolution (there > are way more eyecandy effects than what the card can run). > > Triple Monitors using 2x nvidia cards -> This works , however you can not > drag a window from one card which has 2 monitors to the other card with one > monitor. > I did a lot of reading on this, and found out that nvidia composite > extension is unaware of 2 cards so it treats it as 2 seperate X sessions. > kinda wierd considering the > fact that I can move the mouse across them just fine. > > You really have to try E17, if you think E16 was cool, E17 takes it to a > whole new level. > > Regards, > Murali > > > I'll have to take your word for that because I have not tried it, but I was > thinking the opposite was true. There's a great deal of similarity that's > attractive to me but Enlightenment's simple pager design may be more flexible > and better suited to my work. > Compiz's cube organization is much like Enlightenment's virtual desktops with > a different method of connecting and viewing virtual screens. Compiz gives > you transparent cubes you can rotate, E gives you pagers that can be expanded > by row and column. I prefer 3x3 and mostly use the center and cross > elements, which are five of the six faces of a cube. > Productivity wise, I worry about cubes getting crowded and getting around. > The zoom out features of Compiz look like an easier method of viewing the > whole and switching from desktop to desktop than E16's pager clipping but > I've never mastered all of the gestures to know for sure. I only move from > one pager to another a few times a day when I change projects, so this is not > that big a deal to me. The three screen difference between a nine panelled > 3x3 desktop and a 6 sided cube and speed of transferring between any > "support" screen and the "main" screen are more important. I don't like to > have more than two or three windows on any screen, so I fill up screens > quickly. I might also miss Icon boxes, where I store common things like > secure shell terminals. > > On Friday 20 June 2008, Brad Bendily wrote:> Yeah. for some reason multiple > desktops are not as productive as> compiz. > > > _______________________________________________General mailing [EMAIL > PROTECTED]://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally > privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by > anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any > disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission > taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please > delete > the message and immediately contact the sender if you have received this > message > in error. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
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