[warning: probably ot] 'Virtual' xinerama support in Xfwm4?

[Don Christensen]

What you're asking for doesn't make any sense.  The reference you link
to is for something used by developers to test with.

Xinerama is a way to combine multiple physical monitors into a
single virtual display that spans those monitors.  So you're asking
for a way to use a single monitor to emulate Xinerama which combines
multiple monitors into a single display.  You end up where you started.

Now, if you instead had asked if a single monitor could be presented
as two independent virtual monitors, that might be a useful, or at
least interesting question.  I personally use two monitors but not
Xinerama.  I have two virtual desktops that I can independently
switch between workspaces on, but I can't drag apps between the
two monitors.  This is how I prefer to work, and with a big enough
single monitor, it might make some sense to emulate this (but probably
not enough to justify the development effort, except maybe for testing).

-Don

Harold Aling wrote:
> Dear developers of everyone's favorite DE,
> 
> Is it already possible to -or- how do you think about a virtual, 
> xinerama-alike display mode? For example: divide the total available 
> X-axis space into 2(+) virtual monitors/areas so you can maximize 
> windows on that 'display', etc... So basically just 'fool' Xfwm4 into 
> thinking that you have 2 monitors...
> 
> I read something about virtual Xinerama in a display driver[1] but since 
> I am bound to the NVidia binary driver, that would probably never happen...
> 
> I ask this because I am thinking of buying either 2 17" TFT's or one 
> large, wide screen TFT.
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Harold.
> 
> 
> PS: If you think this is more a Xorg-related question, please let me 
> know and I'll bother them instead!
> 
> [1] http://intr.overt.org/blog/?p=40


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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
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