Yes, it mentions Xinerama specifically, but this should read "Xinerama like"

It's one giant frame buffer presented to the X server.

The size of the frame buffer is determined by the probing of the connected monitors. If only one is connected it tells X that the size is smaller.

The problem with doing this without Xinerama, is that the applications/window manager can't get hints as to avoid placing dialogs/windows in the middle, spanning two screens.

I haven't played with the 2FS to see if this is a problem.

If you're doing interop (Sun Ray Windows connector, RDesktop, Citrix) this is a problem no matter what, as the windows apps only see one large screen.

Brad

Walter R. Moore wrote:
Sun's ad copy mentions Xinerama specifically for the 2FS.

I assume it is like nVidia Twinview  - one video card, two outputs, Xinerama magic sent to X windows.

Tomas Ögren wrote:
On 27 April, 2006 - Dseven wrote:

 
2) The SunRay 2FS is said to have Native dual-head (Xinerama).  Is Xinerama a configurable option?  Some applications behave better in a dual head environment when Xinerama is not enabled.
     
It's not actually Xinerama - it just looks and feels like it. Really,
it's one big "frame buffer" that happens to span two monitors -
therefore it is not possible to use it in a conventional "multihead"
configuration (where each monitor is a separate X11 "screen").
   

So it's like xinerama, but applications can't avoid popping up stuff
across the border..?

/Tomas
 


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