On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 05:36 -0800, James Cornell wrote: > I don't believe JDS (GNOME) supports multiple monitors unless it's > stretched, ie: not spanned. (TwinView on NVIDIA) KDE does though, but > ATM even Blastwave unstable's is quite outdated, so maybe not. KDE 4 > will have Solaris support upon release, but it's not included with > mainline Solaris or OpenSolaris. A more simple window manager would > have better support, ie: Fluxbox or WindowMaker.. (Best option) > > Correct me if I'm wrong though, but I just remember all the way up to > GNOME 2.12 when I used to use it as my primary environment, that it > didn't really have any extra monitor support. Also, since you're > posting this on laptop-discuss, I'm going to point out that notebook > support for Xinerama is more variable, less likely to work unless you > have a really common NVIDIA, or are using VESA X.org module. >
JDS correctly supports Xinerama. It is now based on GNOME 2.20. As I recall, the Xinerama support started working properly sometime during the GNOME 2.16 releases - maybe 9 months ago. The new RandR 1.2 capable video drivers support hotplugging multiple displays similarly to how "dynamic TwinView" works in NVIDIA. The intel driver is the only one currently provided with Nevada, but it works great for the increasingly common Intel chips in laptops. Although TwinView and RandR 1.2 are not true Xinerama, they both provide display information to the window manager in the form of Xinerama hints. > James -Albert
