On 2016-09-25, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And I find it very useful to be able to leave 2 of the screens as-is >> while I switch the third one to do something else. >> >>> The results of your searches and experiments seem to suggest that it >>> is n unusual configuration >> >> It is, though I don't know why -- I find it far more useful than have >> one giant desktop. >> >>> and I'm wondering what particular itch this scratches. >> >> It allows me to work efficiently on complex tasks while concurrently >> responding to emails and handling interruptions. > > I do something with a sort-of similar result. One big desktop across > all screens with at least 6 virtual desktop. Stuff I need always > there (like mail and IM clients) go off to one side on the small > monitor, pinned to all virtual desktops. None of the other real work > stuff goes on the small monitor. > > This won't suit Grant though, as he said his nVidia card can't big > desktop across 3 physical 1600 monitors
That part of the problem _might_ go away. The card is scheduled for replacement soon. It's no longer supported by the latest nvidia driver, and it has required me to mask xorg-server 1.18, which, in turn has forced me to mask the latest stable versions of a couple other things. That's not a big deal yet, but it's only going to get worse. So I've got a new nvidia card picked out. The old one is only 8 years old, and it still works perfectly, but I guess that's progress. Though all of the nvidia cards supported by latest drivers have fans. :/ I've been testing the openbox/tint2 setup on my single-screen laptop using an Xnest display with three screens. So far, so good. <whine> Whenever I report a bug related to multi-screen support, the excuse is always "none of the developers have access to multi-screen systems, so nobody can work on this". Really? People who are developing X11 desktop infrastructure don't know enough to type "Xnest -scrns 3 -geometry 640x480 :1"? I think what they actually mean is "none of the developers use multi-screen setups in their daily work, so nobody cares about this enough to fix it." I'd have a lot more repspect for that -- at least it's honest. </whine> -- Grant
