Window / Screen question

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael at gnat.ca> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  This isn't a fedora question specifically, however just thought I'd run it
>> by to get some feedback.
>>
>>  I've had a multi-card/multi-monitor setup for a few months now. It has been
>> a royal pain. (Only the closed drivers can handle it unfortunately). I was
>> talking to the radeon/ati driver people and have been informed that
>> multi-card setups don't get much love from either the driver developers or
>> upstream/xorg. So I've figured I may move from 3 monitors back to 2 larger
>> (24") monitors. So after that history, here comes the idea...
>>
>>  I'm wondering if it is possible to have 'fake' monitor borders/dimensions.
>> So you instruct xorg/gnome/xinerama or whatever that the 1900 pixel width is
>> 2/3rd + 1/3rd. If I were to click maximize within either of those imaginary
>> borders, it would maximize to that size instead of the 1900 px width. If I
>> double clicked, it would then go fullscreen...
>>
>> Does this sound at all useful? Opinions / critiques...

 > Sounds like tiling windowmanagers. dwm from http://suckless.org ?

Does gnome support this? That would be very nice.

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