I'd say that among laptop users, using an external screen is a pretty commonplace.
ESPECIALLY video projectors, although we all know that making them work under Linux (especially on NVidia) is an undertaking of herculean proportions. But, Christophe, seriously. People come with a laptop to work and dock it. In the dock they have one or two monitors plugged. Then they go home and plug the laptop to their plasmas to watch a movie or play a game (whether or not Linux has games playable on a plasma is irrelevant to this discussion). Then they go on a business trip to showcase some product and check their presentation while on the go. Then they plug their laptop into a projector. This is what people do all the time if they use a laptop for work. They use it all the time and would like to plug it into anything that would fit. I also reckon that sooner or later, by a "PC" we will all mean "a laptop" at best. Desktops as we know them are dying, save for specialised adaptations and enterprise environments. With WindowMaker, the placement of windows, Clip and Dock, though, gets royally screwed, not speaking of the necessity to restart it, each time a display is plugged in or out, to at least partly rectify the situation. By the way, to keep track of what monitor is plugged and where it is (on the left, on the right, top, bottom), I need to use a piece of band-aid called mate-settings-daemon. Welcome to the XXI century, where everything is expected to be hotpluggable and just work. On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Christophe <[email protected]>wrote: > > ----- David Maciejak <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On Thursday, February 13, 2014, Christophe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > From: Christophe CURIS <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > > > > > > The proper behaviour that was expected is to accept silently that > > > libXinerama may not be missing, and only stop compilation when the lib > > > is present but not its header. > > > > > > Yes, in fact I did want to change that behaviour as on my Ubuntu system > lib > > and header come with 2 packages and by default seems I only got lib > setup. > > > > That's why I thought it's ok to check xinerama in auto but the configure > > should not stop as it forced me to pass the -- disable_xinemara option to > > configure script. > > Btw I don't think everybody use multiple displays. > > > > Any thoughts ? > > > Hi, > Sorry for late answer, been quite busy. > You're right that multiple display are not the common case, although > there's already been mention on the list of people using it. There are also > the case where people do not use multi-display but may later, for example > on laptops: at first you may not think about it because you're using the > built-in screen but some time later you may occasionally use a video > projector, or TV or... > > The idea in current case was that if the lib is present, then it is > probable that user may want to use it but just forgot to install dev > packages, thus we cannot decide what to do so we try to be clear to user > about it so he can choose either to install them or tell us he does not > want it (--disable-xinerama... when it works ;-) ) > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. > -- Engineer : How do I do it? Economist : How much will it cost? Twisted Developer: But does it block?
