Window / Screen question

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

Casey Dahlin wrote:
> Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
> I don't know that I agree with Nathaniel's recommendation. Tiled window 
> managers do a lot of neat things, and are worth checking out, but I 
> don't think they solve your problem specifically.

I think you mean Pavel's suggestion...?

> XRandR might be able to be coaxed into doing what you want. You also 
> might be able to get Compiz to display 3 workspaces across 2 monitors.

with configuration, or code?



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