I actually use a dual-monitor LXDE desktop in my day-to-day life, but it's a desktop and I've got two identical monitors. (Their serial numbers are only two increments apart, actually)
I'll share what it's important to me, though, in the hopes that I don't later end up having to ditch lxpanel or stay on an old version to flee changes benefiting only asymmetric setups. 1. I like it that my main panel extends across both screens and doesn't impose any "smart" behaviours on how my applets are positioned. (In fact, the spanning is something I cursed at KDE 4 for removing in the switch from Kicker to Plasma back before I ditched it.) 2. I have desktop icons turned off, but back when I didn't, I wanted full freedom to position icons anywhere. My main concern was making sure that, when a game shut off one monitor and changed the resolution on the other, even if the game crashed, the "don't let icons get lost" functionality would only kick in on session start so I didn't need to fear and then curse the desktop icon manager for destroying my careful icon grouping before I could manually reset the monitor modes. 3. Wallpaper is actually something I've already had to turn to an external tool (Nitrogen) for because PCManFM didn't support any of the modes I used last I checked. KDE (especially KDE 3.x) spoiled me for choice and the images I use tend to require either "one image for the entire desktop" or "scale to fill the monitor, letting one dimension extend beyond it if necessary, then crop to fit and replicate to both monitors". On 07/10/11 12:13 AM, PCMan wrote: > Multi-monitor support is a long standing issue. > Here I'd like to ask everyone. > How should a muli-monior desktop bahave? > For the desktop panel: > 1. one panel per monitor, configured separately > 2. one panel exending to the external monitor > 3. one panel staying on main monitor, no panel on the external one > 4. one panel exending to the external monitor, but have the most > important panel applets on the main monitor, and the rest on the > external monitor > 5. Other possibilities... > > For the desktop icons manager, options are: > 1. icons on main monitor only. > 2. some icons on main monitor, others on the external monitors. (Then > how to handle icon rearrangement when the external monitor is disconnected?) > 3. others... > > For wallpaper: > 1. one wallpaper per monitor > 2. one wallpaper extending to all monitors > 3. others... > > Things goes much more complicated since X supports XRandR, Xinerama, > other vendor-specific solutions, X11 Display/Screen stuff. > Implementation details for them are totally different. So how exactly > should a desktop behave and be implemented? What will happen after > Wayland is introduced and is widely accepted? > We had better have a conclusion on the specifications before anything is > going to be implemented. Comments needed. Thanks! > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Julien Lavergne <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Le 10/06/2011 11:18 PM, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> a écrit : >> Sounds great. Will the configuration go back to default when I >> disconnect the extra monitor without rebooting or will I need to >> reconfigure it? Can you save more than one configuration? > No, it's not dynamic, you have to do it again if you unplug the > monitor. > >> Can this kind of functionality be built into the system at some point? > Yes, it's a goal, but it's still not ready. > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
