On Wednesday 28 November 2001 17:22, Chris Carbaugh wrote: > I haven't found any window managers (as of about 6 months ago) that > were fully Xinerama/multi-head aware. This is mostly just an > annoyance. When an app starts up, it can be split across the screens, > a menu from your left screen can overlap to the right screen, etc.
KDE can be compiled with Xinerama support and most apps work quite nicely. The ones that break tend to be the ones that get the geometry of the screen and then move the window to the centre manually. Qt3 has Xinerama support now and I've been working with other KDE developers to improve our support for KDE3. But the biggest problem I've found with Xinerama... apps don't support it yet. It would be nice if the Xinerama API were more full-featured too. It's nice to have functions like screenLeftOf(int x) so that it's easy to walk through the screen map. I found that I implemented many of these for KWinTV. However the WM can't do much for apps that assume they are on a single headed machine. > Recent messages on this list lead me to think that Matrox G450 and G550 > dual head cards will support openGL on both heads. I've always heard > matrox cards to be more multi-head friendly than others, so this makes > since to me. Any how that's my next step, a G550. I probably won't > get to it till after new years, so if you go this route post back with > your results. The G550 works quite well. Hopefully we will have Xv on the second head soon. That would be very nice. -- George Staikos _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
