On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 8:18 AM o1bigtenor <o1bigte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 4:34 PM Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:51:33 -1000 > > Joel Roth via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > snip > > One question: How does your above statement hold up when Wayland > > becomes the law of the land? > > > > Greetings > > From what little I"ve been able to discern about Wayland I really hope that > it doesn't become the law of the land. > (<rant on) > I will admit that I"m downright weird - - - - I have 2 graphics cards and > presently 4 monitors with the 5th sitting waiting for time to install. > One of my cards is old enough so that I run nouveau instead of any > proprietary option (the card is EOLed!). I first set up this system in > the beginning of 2011 and really struggled to find useful information > to run this multi-monitor setup. There is a tiny bit of information that > is available since the initial setup but very little which tells me that > running multi-gpu and multi-monitor is highly unusual in the linux > community. I just finished yesterday a project where I actually was > needing to use all 4 monitors (all the screen real estate) and I still found > myself wishing for more. For setup after any boot or reboot I use > xrandr using notes from what I was able to find (xrandr is very terribly > exampled and the notes are adequate but really do need a lot of > experimenting - - - - which is not comfortable for most!!) better > develop for myself. > > Spent a little time just now doing some searching and it seems that > multi-gpu and serious multi-monitor (more than 2) is now considered > to be the province of gamers. I don't really play any games - - - I have > too much fun just using software on my system - - - - but then I'm a > business man and self-employed and that means, by definition, that > I'm weird. I am working with software in a very wide range of things, > from CADD to CAM (that very little at present), to spreadsheets, to > starting to work in self designed software supporting equipment that > I'm fabricating and a bunch of other things. To date I've been mostly a > software user but am starting on becoming a software developer > because in certain areas software just isn't adequate. In the software > using I've found myself pushing the envelope because I combine things > in ways that seem to all too often be non-customary. > > So - - - to draw the circle a little closer to closed - - - - what I see in > Wayland doesn't enthuse me one iota - - - multi-gpu and serious i > multi-monitor stuff is really still considered 'weird' and that means > that its not really supported and if there is some support - - - - its > called good luck finding it. (Most of the information on the web for > xrandr is for version 1.3 (meaning version 3) or earlier yet I have found > a hint that version 1.6 is immanent but I can't really find any information > on what is proposed.) > > (>rant off)
I possibly should have changed the topic - - - - mea culpa! _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
