On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:13 AM, PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Multi-monitor support is a long standing issue. > Here I'd like to ask everyone. > How should a muli-monior desktop bahave? > For the desktop panel: > 1. one panel per monitor, configured separately > 2. one panel exending to the external monitor > 3. one panel staying on main monitor, no panel on the external one > 4. one panel exending to the external monitor, but have the most > important panel applets on the main monitor, and the rest on the external > monitor > 5. Other possibilities... > > For the desktop icons manager, options are: > 1. icons on main monitor only. > 2. some icons on main monitor, others on the external monitors. (Then how > to handle icon rearrangement when the external monitor is disconnected?) > 3. others... > > For wallpaper: > 1. one wallpaper per monitor > 2. one wallpaper extending to all monitors > 3. others... > > Things goes much more complicated since X supports XRandR, Xinerama, other > vendor-specific solutions, X11 Display/Screen stuff. Implementation details > for them are totally different. So how exactly should a desktop behave and > be implemented? What will happen after Wayland is introduced and is widely > accepted? > We had better have a conclusion on the specifications before anything is > going to be implemented. Comments needed. Thanks! >
In my setup, I prefer: One panel on main monitor, none on secondary OR mirrored panels on both. Icons on main monitor only (actually, I prefer a clean desktop with no icons other than mounted devices). One wallpaper per monitor, configurable. xrandr works comfortably for me.
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