You want *dramatic hamster music* a Tiling Window Manager -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#List_of_tiling_window_managers_for_X
I've used ratpoison, ion3, and awesome. ion3 was my favorite; but awesome works better with Gnome/KDE. According to wikipedia, compiz has a Grid plugin which does what you want. A side benefit of most of these TWMs is that they de-emphasize the mouse and give you much more control from the keyboard. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to have a single monitor behave as if it were dual-head? > > At home, I have one 24in 1920x1200 monitor. At work, I have two 19in > 1280x1024 monitors, which work seamlessly side-by-side with TwinView > in the nvidia driver. > > I'd love to be able to combine the benefits of the two setups. I'd > like, for example, to be able to hit Maximise and have the window fill > up only half the screen. Today's screens are so wide that maximising a > window often just creates lots of unused space. I'd still like the > option to use the whole screen for one window, though. Edge resistance > in the middle of the display would be very nice too. > > Sridhar > > -- > Bring choice back to your computer. > http://www.linux.org.au/linux > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
