On 2008-10-11, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My research into nvidia's docs leads me to believe that TwinView is designed
> to make the presence of two physical monitors invisible and present one giant
> X screen, with a funky API for dead spaces (which may or may not work). I'm
> thinking Xinerama is the better option, despite the fact that it's old,
> clunky, hopeless at dealing with XRandR and can't be changed on the fly. I'm
> happy to set up two ServerLayouts to deal with this.
>
> I'd appreciate some pros and cons feedback from the list before I embark on a
> huge emerge -e world to include Xinerama support.
There's a third option you haven't mentioned: two different
displays rather than a large virtual display spread across two
monitors. After reading up on the options, it's what I chose
to do.
Cons:
* You can't drag a window from one display to the other.
* Windows can't overlap from one display to the other.
* 3D HW accel and HW video overlay only available on one of
the displays.
Pros:
* Mouse movement and focus still act like one large display.
* Each display can have it's own set of virtual desktops and
they can be switched indpendantly.
* Things like window-manager panels/docs/taskbars are managed
separately for the two displays.
* Displays can have different resolutions, sizes, depths.
I particularly like having multiple virtual desktops for each
display and being able to independanly toggle the displays
among their virtual desktops. Once in a while I wish I could
drag a window from one display to the other, but not very
often.
--
Grant
