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

[Harold Aling]

Don Christensen wrote:
> 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.
That's exactly what I intended to ask, but due to my crappy English my 
question became somewhat 'lost in translation'...

I use 2 monitors and Twinview(=Nvidia's xinerama-alike implementation) 
now, but I don't like the 6 cm space/border in between...

If I could just buy one large monitor and divide that into 2 virtual 
ones, I would have the same setup, but without the annoying border. I 
would also be able to maximize a window per virtual desktop.

This would also come in handy if I want to span a single window over the 
2 virtual desktops, as that would result in one large window, also 
without the 6 cm of border...

Summary:
* One large monitor (~24")
* Maximize per virtual desktop
* Maximize on all virtual desktops
* No border
* Looks better ;)

-H-

> 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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