Re: Multihead support in window managers

[Mike <mnugent goamerica net>]

I've been told that what we're calling SLS is going to be released in
Xfree86 v4.  I saw a preview of it at Comdex in the VA booth and the way
it seems to run is to have one large virtual buffer that maps to
different video cards (and obviously different monitors).  I know Xi
runs GNOME/E with this method without a problem, and if Xfree86 v4
actually does have this then the best solution seem to be to wait for
their release.

--
Mike Nugent
mike@illuminatus.org


Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> nrvale0@pop.uky.edu wrote:
> >
> >   According to Xi( I'm no expert here ), what you are describing is
> > not multihead but Single Logical Screen(SLS).
> 
> Ah, I see what you mean.
> 
> In that case, you should be able to load several distinct instances of the window manager. Not an ideal solution though. Maybe the X people have worked out a nice way for a single wm to work over multiple heads?
> I tried a multihead setup with X3.3.5 and it sucked big time because you can only have one of the heads active at any time (and while one is active, the others no-longer update their display).
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> Chris Jones
> 
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