How to maximize on multiple monitors

[houghi]

I use the NVidia drivers from NVidia and not the open source drivers.
The reason is that with that you will get `nvidia-settings` and for me 
that
works the best to set up the display how I like.I have 3 moniotors of
different sizes and can set them up as separate desktops or as one
desktop.

You could use it as one desktop and script your way around it in a way 
where
you can maximize to monitor, but that would not do the snapping as you 
are
working on one desktop and that one desktop does not have a border ib 
the
middle.

Another disadvantage would be that if you have two not alighned 
monitors,
there will be an area on the desktop, that is a rectangle, that you can 
not
see and where things could 'hide'.

To wrap you head around it, you must think in term of desktops, and the
monitors are just there to show the desktops. To me having multiple
destops outwages the ability to e.g. drag from one monitor to another.

So what you want: having the desktop border the monitors AND have them 
border
the collection of monitors and have a non-rectangle desktop is not 
possible
as far as I know.

You could stop reading here. Attention: rambling starts now.

Live example: Say I have two monitors with two desktops each. On one 
desktop
I am doing some HTML coding. On the other I have the browser to show the
website.

I want to see a movie. I just go to another desktop and the second 
monitor
and all the rest is still available.And switching dssktops is better 
than
just going alt-tab between programs. On a desktop I could have several
programs in a specific layout. e.g. 6 terminal windows, while one 
desktop
2 I have other things in a different layout.

Going from 'read email and reddit next to eachother' to 'monitor 
servers' to
'programming with vim and data entry test' is an enourmour production 
boost
once you get used to it.

HTH, HAND

houghi

The thing is that it will look either at the seperate desktops or at one
desktop

On 2018-08-02 11:24, Adrian Constantin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a multi-monitor desktop (I believe many offices do nowadays),
> and many times I would like to maximize a window across all monitors.
> 
> Can xfce support such a feature please ?
> 
> I have Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS with xfce 4.12
> 
> I know some displays allow me to unify my monitors, but that is not
> the same thing and is not going to help much. Keeping separate
> monitors is helpful because windows snap to monitor boundaries by
> default. Still some windows I would like to maximize across the entire
> desktop.
> 
> Screen placement for multiple screens does not have to line up nicely
> to compose a single rectangular or square desktop. Rather one monitor
> can be offset from others in any way the users wants to place them, to
> reflect physical screen placement. But maybe xfce can find the
> maximum-area rectangle that can still fit in the user arrangement of
> monitors, and use that as the new placement to maximize a window
> across monitors. Most users will be interested in monitors that
> line-up nicely anyway.
> 
> --
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Adrian Vasile Constantin
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