On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Brian J. Murrell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Here's an interesting (for some value of interesting) use case. >> >> I start an xpra on my laptop, so that I can view the session on my >> desktop. My desktop is dual-headed though, and before using xpra, I >> used to ssh into the laptop and through the magic of ssh X forwarding >> used to open windows on both screens of my desktop display. >> >> How could I achieve the same with xpra? > > If you have a modern Xinerama/RANDR-style dual-head setup, then it > should just work. (In fact, this is basically one of the core > advantages of xpra over VNC for me, its ability for one session to > display comfortable on wildly varying client screen sizes.) If you > have a classic two-SCREEN-style dual-head setup, then xpra would need > some extra code, and it's likely not worth it since quote no-one > unquote uses multiple SCREENs anymore.
Oh, right -- you could also just start two xpra servers, and attach one to each screen. This would be a bit clunky, but only in the ways that multiple screens are already clunky, I think. -- Nathaniel _______________________________________________ Parti-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.partiwm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parti-discuss
