On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:08:39PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > > Cuong, I'm curious, running dual-screen myself, about your setup. I am > > running xinerama and that combines my two screens into one large > > one. The mouse flows effortlessly from one to the other. I find it > > works very well with a tiling WM (wmii here) and just love it. What do > > you find to be the advantages/disadvantages to have two truly separate > > screens? > > > > > > A > > > Hi Andrew, > > A quick question: what does "a tiling WM (wmii here)" mean? a tiling WM is a WM that "tiles" the windows. That is, the windows don't overlap, but rather occupy as much space as possible and are laid out on the screen like tiles. wmii is one of the many tiling WM's. It works by assigning the maximum amount of space to a window and automatically sizing the window to that space. So with one window open, it gets the full screen automatically. With two, they share the screen more or less equally (that's configurable), splitting the screen horizontally. You can add more windows as desired and the others will all resize and adjust automatically to make the most of available screen. You can shift windows into separate columns so that one window gets full screen height on, say, the left 2/3's of the screen while the others share the remaining 1/3 of the screen. > > For my setup: I have one flat monitor (main monitor) and another monitor is > TV, and I want to watch movies on TV and work on another monitor, and that I > do not want my mouse bothers the TV when viewing movies, that is why I setup > so that the mouse can not move from one monitor to another (the mouse is > bounded as normal monitor). okay, that makes sense. > Another advantage, I "think" but have not tried > (will try it soon), is that if you have two mice and two keyboards, you can > work on one monitor when your child is playing game on another monitor. Two > separately working desktop with one CPU is cool, right? Kent West does this and calls it dual-seat. search the archives for his insights on doing this. A
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