Karl HasselstrÃm wrote: [...]
Is there any alternative that would correctly handle different sized displays connected to each other?
This is the way it works for me with Xinerama. At work I have two monitors with different resolutions, and ion (2) fills each of them with a just-large-enough workspace.
Well, I have *three*, so nyah.
Seriously, though, using ion in multiple-screens mode is a really nice way of managing big screen areas. The way I have it set up is that the middle monitor, the one in front of me, is the primary display: this is the only one with more than one workspace, and is where I run editors, mailers, web browsers, etc in a frame environment. The right-hand one runs a single float workspace. The left-hand one is another framed environment and runs a vast collection of docked apps, syslogs, and xmms.
The only issue is that I can't drag windows from one screen to another, but I can live with that. Otherwise, ion is superb, and I couldn't live without it.
I have the float workspace set up as :0, so if I start some random X program, it shows up in a normal window, which I find convenient. Also, this is the one that the 3D acceleration works on, and 3D apps tend to get a little stroppy if you force them into a size they're not expecting.
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