On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:40:01AM -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote:
...
> >Maybe this is a silly question, but how did you do that? It would be a fine
> >solution for us to "screen flip" on the home setup - but is this a SRSS
> >specific thing or is it basic X functionality that I just don't know about?
> >  
> 
> Unfortunately, this is only possible with actual "multihead", which
> is different from the dual-screen 2FS configuration.

Yes - but for our particular setup this is perfect. We use pairs of 2's instead
of 2FS.

...
> In a future release (probably the next one), we're
> planning to support the Xorg's XRandR feature (and
> support Xorg on Solaris), so that if you hotdesk
> between Sun Rays with monitors that support
> different resolutions (including a 2FS which
> essentially looks like a 3840 x1200 resolution
> spread across two monitors) you can shrink the
> desktop to fit the new resolution (and expand it
> back out again later if you return to a larger
> resolution).  That's very different from screen
> flipping, however, and compressing a 3840x1200
> desktop to something like 1280x1024 might not result
> in a very attractive situation if you have lots of
> large windows on each workspace.

That's interesting.

For now, we'll have 2*1600*1200 at work and 1*1600*1200 at home. As far as I
can see, all the functionality we need is already there. This setup will hold
for a while I think.

-- 

 / jakob

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