On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:49, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse [...] > > > >But another use is one user with xinerama. [...] > >What in the world would I use xinerama for? Not having > >had it, being small-minded, now I can't think of a use > >of it. > > > > > > I use two monitors under Win2K (19in @ 1280x1024x32bpp and 17 in @ > 1024x768x32bpp off a GeForce DDR and Matrox G200). I *really* like it. > I couldn't imagine working with one monitor. Even upgrading to a larger > screen wouldn't cut it. I always flipped between windows a lot and this > saves me from doing this. It's great if you're comparing two things, or > want to keep an eye something whilst you work on something else, or if > you have IM sessions where you're discussing something that's going on > in another window, or you want a debugger and the app you're debugging > visible at the same time, etc, etc. A large screen and a focus follows > mouse policy goes some way to covering this, but it's really inadequate > in comparison. > > To be honest I haven't had much luck with Xinerama. First of all, X > wouldn't run my G200 at the resolution and colour depth I wanted - it > complained about the adapter not having enough even though Win2K will > drive it to much higher resolutions. And, the window placement policies > seem to really suck. Win2K assigns one of the monitors as the primary > and this is where apps will appear the first time. Xinerma seems to > apply this to the left-most monitor (presumably it's a continuous > virtual desktop with 0x0 in the upper left), but that I find really > irritating and I didn't want to move the smaller monitor to the other > side of my desk. Admittedly I didn't spend more than a few hours (a few > hours too many IMHO) trying to fix it as I don't use Linux on the > desktop enough to worth worrying about it. I just wish it worked more > sensibly or easily out of the box... but that's another story ;) >
If you want help with that, what window manager? At list some of them have a new window placement policy (sawfish + gnome had that last time I checked them), and also fvwm. You usually should have an option for top left corner / under mouse / center / free place / absolute position(?) > Malc -- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
