On 01/16/2016 12:21 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
On 15 January 2016 at 23:46, Ken Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
On 01/15/2016 10:56 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
There are other ways of getting multi-monitor support other than using
two separate X screens. The most recent and modern way is XRandR. So
instead of epoxying your monitor port, or using X screens, you should
try to use XRandR.
Thanks but I have looked at a lot of documentation for XrandR. I do not see
that XrandR can give me two monitors with distinct desktops. Changing
monitor resolution and position relative to one another can be accomplished
(in Mate or Gnome) with System; Preferences; Hardware; Monitor. Am I missing
some functionality in XrandR?
Separate X screens are complicated, and is likely not the experience
you want. Desktops like GNOME have not supported that for a long time,
and GTK+ has started to remove support for multi-screen X.
Separate X screens gives me EXACTLY what I am after. That is why I asked the
question. Please see this page:
http://jsmylinux.no-ip.org/basic-information/dual-monitors/ and have a look
towards the bottom titled "Individual Panels".
Gnome 2 on CentOS 6 works fine as does Mate on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 15.10. I
have not tried Gnome 3 - at least not that I can recall. It is almost as bad
as Ubuntu Unity.
And that 's single screen with multiple outputs.
It gives you no productivity when you have two screens and the
applications on one screen cannot be moved to the other and probably
cannot even share paste buffers.
And yes, the gnome system settings use xrandr so give you exactly the
same options.
What is missing functionality in the system preferences?
Or are you missing extra panels that were not automagically created
when you plugged in another monitor?
You can create more panels by hand in the panel settings.
HTH
Michal
I do not need to be able to move open applications from one screen
(monitor) to the other. I start them on the screen (monitor) where I
wish to use them. And YES I can copy/paste data from an application on
one monitor to an application on the other - I do this all the time. I
routinely copy data from an application on one monitor on the host to a
virtual machine running on the other monitor.
When I first created my separate X screens the second monitor did not
have panels. I created them and added the launchers for the applications
which I intended to run on that monitor.
System; Preferences; Hardware; Display does NOT provide a way to
configure the monitors in away to accomplish these things (Ubuntu 9.10,
10.04, 15.04, CentOS 7, CentOS 7).
I appreciate all of the input folks are providing. However, I asked the
simple question if separate X screens could be configured on Intel
integrated graphics. The discussion seems to have degenerated into "you
don't want to do" what I wish to do and "you should try something else."
PLEASE if someone knows the answer YES or NO - tell me. If the answer is
no I will reserve the Intel graphics machines for single monitor or
headless use and use my Nvidia machines for dual hear use.
Ken
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