Hi, On the new machine I've set it up as dual-head which is working nicely for all the basic stuff, and in general pretty nicely for running VMWare/WinXP on the second screen for most of the day. I have a few issues, like the mouse can become __very__ laggy in VMWare at times but other than that all the basics are there and working well enough to get some work done. I'm using XFCE4 at the moment.
The one place where I've been a bit disappointed is when the VGA drivers need to switch resolutions to play a game like Tux Racer then instead of two desktops I'm seeing one desktop duplicated on both monitors. Is this normal or is there some general way to control this? I'd really like the game on one monitor and just have the other stay black. More disturbing is when I exit the game I'm left with both desktops displaying the same things and neither is exactly my original first or second desktop but rather a combination of the two which is fairly strange. (Desktop #1 icons with Desktop #2 wallpaper) I'm wondering if other environments handle this better. XFCE is pretty lightweight, which I like. I'd gone away from Gnome because of the time spent maintaining it on Gentoo but on this machine it probably wouldn't be all the bad. Not sure I want KDE but I'm curious as to whether anything solves this problem? Logging out of XCFE and then running startx gets everything back the way I want, and I don't think I'll play Linux games much, but I'm curious as to how well other environments handle this. Cheers, Mark
