On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:19:53AM +0100, Soenke von Stamm wrote: > NVidia calls it TwinView, XFree's version ix Xinerama. The config below is > for > Xinerama, the TwinView stuff is commented out. Both Screens (DFPs in this > case) are connected to one card, it's a GF5700 AGP with two DVI ports. I'm > running this on i386. > > TwinView has one advantage: it's possible to assign nvidia-settings to both > screens. The downer is, applications and your window manager don't recognize > the two screens. To them, it's only one very-wide screen. With Xinerama you > can eg. maximize to only one screen and KDE panels (GNOME ones as well I > guess) can be assigned to exactly one screen. In my case this outweighs the > benefits of TwinView.
I thought there was an option in TwinView to provide xinerama compatible features so window managers would know the actual layout of the screen. I thought the main difference was support for opengl on both screens or not, and video overlay support and such. But given I only have a single port nvidia, I can't try it out myself. I can only read the README. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]